Akbar (Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar) Quotes
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
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I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.
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In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There are very few people who could be imprisoned, kept away from their family and loved ones, and exit that same prison with such a powerful spirit of love and a desire for reconciliation.
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I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
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I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to do that. That was crazy. After you work on Wall Street, it's a choice: would you rather work at McDonald's or on the sell side? I would choose McDonald's over the sell side.
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It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.
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I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.
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When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.
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I knew that things were going to hurt. I knew that things weren't always going to be perfect. But I could trust that I could make it through it.
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Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
