Abd al-Karim Qasim Quotes

I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people.

Abd al-Karim Qasim

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
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• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
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• I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

  

  Dan Abrams
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• This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

  

  Garet Garrett
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• I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
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• The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
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• People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Picture
  • Year

• A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Art
  • Path
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• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kids
  • Singing
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• The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Small

• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi

• For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Respect

• Perhaps one of the few positive aspects of the coup is that it has discredited the claim that that that the state had been taken over by the Brotherhood under Morsi.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Brotherhood

• I only made one film with a score, and I hate it. I hate the score of that film. It's not coming from me. I had nothing to do with it.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Hate

• The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • World
  • Community
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• The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Good
  • Job
  • Present

• I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Accepting Turkey as a member of the European club means that the club is open to outsiders, to Muslims, to poorer people, to developing countries, to countries with a slightly different cultural tradition but basically the same values. I think it's dangerous for the West to close the door; it doesn't do us any good and it doesn't do the rest of the world any good. Also, it reduces the danger of a "clash of civilizations".

  

  Andrew Mango
  • Values
  • Accepting
  • Member

• I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people.

  

  Abd al-Karim Qasim
  • World
  • Want
  • Joke