Abdullah ibn Mubarak Quotes
We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Fat Joe -
Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
Ramez Naam -
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
Ed Belfour
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Samantha Harvey -
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht -
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken -
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
Fernando Pessoa -
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Valerie Bertinelli -
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
Questlove -
When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
Nadia Comaneci -
I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
Kaley Cuoco -
The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
Nate Holland -
I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
Abbi Jacobson
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I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.
Jason Priestley -
It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show. I think one of the things that helped its mystique is, it never came out on DVD or video or whatever.
Ken Marino -
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
Marcia Angell -
The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
Eckhart Tolle -
High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That's why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.
Bob Beckel -
We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak