Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
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But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
