Ahmed Zaki Yamani Quotes
The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
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Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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Nobody knows me.
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I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.
