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He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

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• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Society
  • Intellectual
  • Call

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • She
  • Yourself

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • Event

• We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • People
  • Great
  • Problem

• What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Power

• If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Rise Up

• I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Space

• Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Vision
  • Face

• Without education, confidence does not come.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Education
  • Confidence
  • Doe

• You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Secret

• Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Light

• Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Men
  • Real
  • Money

• My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

  

  George Clooney
  • Summer
  • Cutting
  • Grandparent

• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

  

  Euripides
  • Friend
  • Ignorant
  • Prefer

• Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Stories
  • Newspapers
  • Restriction

• There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Truth
  • Stories
  • Happened

• When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • High
  • Connection

• He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

  

  Adam Langer
  • Stories
  • Wrote
  • Admired