Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.
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Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
