Ahmed Zaki Yamani Quotes
The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
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I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
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I still think I am the greatest.
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I concentrate on doing good projects.
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
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I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
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Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
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We could see the storm approaching and were hustling to get to the barn and get the hay covered with a couple of large tarps. We drove right past the house and didn't notice anything wrong.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.
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The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.
