Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes
Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.
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I remember making up songs in my head.
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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Make your company stock a consumer product. When consumers buy stock in your company, they'll never buy a competitive product. You've linked their financial future to yours.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
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Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.
