Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I love to write.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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I've always taken direction pretty well.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
