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 -
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 -
Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.
Garry Winogrand -
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 -
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
Zadie Smith
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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
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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 -
There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.
Nicholas Murray Butler -
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump -
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
Ian Fleming -
Society itself is responsible for the degradation.
Wole Soyinka
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Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.
Leon Trotsky -
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