Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber Quotes
To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I want to be a major force.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.
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If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.
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Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
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To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
