Abdullah Abdullah Quotes

The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force.

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• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
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• I had lost faith in biography.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
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• Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Music
  • Lost

• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Small

• Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Lost

• I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Find

• Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Thoughts
  • Feel

• 'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Done
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• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Eyes

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Men
  • Country
  • War

• There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Force
  • Beat

• I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Daughter

• I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • True

• Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Car
  • Auto

• Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Mean
  • Growth
  • Waste

• Some colleges and universities in Virginia have chosen to ban concealed carry, and we believe that those universities have created more dangerous environments for their students, faculty, and staff.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • Believe

• The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force.

  

  Abdullah Abdullah
  • Lost
  • Force
  • Defeat