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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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
Anne Carson
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
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
The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
Edwidge Danticat
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
Auguste Renoir
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
I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.
Chris Matthews
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
I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.
Nicole Maines
I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.
Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach
Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero... If we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed.
Chris Rapley
Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.
Ravi Shankar
