Aga Khan III Quotes
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
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With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.
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For me, reality is God, because it rules.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.
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Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
