Adel al-Jubeir Quotes

We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

Adel al-Jubeir

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• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Justice
  • Role

• There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • Political
  • Decisions

• Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Role
  • Bee
  • Dinosaur

• I feel so honored to be reprising the role of Janet Weiss and stepping into Susan Sarandon's shoes.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Feel
  • Shoes
  • Role

• Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Model
  • Role
  • Opposite

• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• I'm having more fun working on 'Eerie, Indiana' because I have the leading role, and this is more of a lighter type of show.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Fun
  • Working
  • Role

• When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Energy
  • Me

• I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Like
  • Lead

• Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Live
  • Action

• In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Band
  • Role
  • Well

• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
  • Lead
  • Speculation

• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • Society
  • Play
  • Role

• We got things done at the right time tonight. Every time we went down we kept our composure and got back into the game. We were able to get a lead and sustain it. We showed a lot of character being that those guys (Washington) already had their playoff shirts made up and wanted to wear them after the game. We didn't give them a chance to do that, now they have to do it somewhere else. We had an extra incentive to beat them and that gave us a great lift. We just did everything right tonight.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Live
  • Role
  • Producers

• Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Role

• I do see the poet as someone whose role it is to push back against anti-intellectualism, anti-activism, and passivity in general. The purpose of this pushing back is to show that there are always infinite sides to a story, amazing unimagined perspectives on any narrative, and no limit to how weird and wild and unexpected our language and its meanings can get.

  

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  • Language
  • Role
  • Pushing

• The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Life
  • Character
  • Theater

• Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Free
  • Purpose

• He was taking off his tie, the dreadful tie with the green mermaid on it. “It’s your tie, Sam—I hate it! Why must you always . . .” I’m not saying it right, she thought, not any of it.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Right
  • I Hate
  • Mermaid

• We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

  

  Adel al-Jubeir
  • Role
  • Lead
  • Criticize