Ahmad Shah Massoud Quotes
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'
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No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
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In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.
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It's a team game, but you've got to have individuals that really want the ball and want the pressure of being there to help get in a position to win.
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It's hard to say exactly what amount of money is involved, but it's huge. There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organized groups and organized crime.
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We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan
