Ahmed Rashid Quotes

I am confident that there are hedge funds, banks or investment companies that could allocate five percent of their portfolios for risky investments. In any event, for countries like Afghanistan the formation of an entrepreneurial class is of vital importance.

Ahmed Rashid

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• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
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• Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Done
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• Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Way
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• I've been fortunate in that I've been able to have that balance as an actress to be able to do the wild, fun action movies and also be allowed to do the dramas. Hopefully, if I'm able to keep that balance, I'd love to always try to do both.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Trying
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• This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Children
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• Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Up
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• I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.

  

  Earl Thomas
  • Inspiration
  • Needs
  • Spark

• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Public
  • Offensive
  • Regretted

• The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Stressful

• I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Child
  • Paint
  • Arrange

• I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Long
  • May
  • Today

• I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Barack

• The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Soul
  • Dance

• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Thinking
  • Information
  • Mankind

• If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Dreams
  • Importance
  • Connected

• The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

  

  William Ames
  • Firsts
  • Concern
  • Yield

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Spirit
  • Critical

• I am confident that there are hedge funds, banks or investment companies that could allocate five percent of their portfolios for risky investments. In any event, for countries like Afghanistan the formation of an entrepreneurial class is of vital importance.

  

  Ahmed Rashid
  • Importance
  • Investments
  • Formation