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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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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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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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
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Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.
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I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.
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A teacher who is not true to his or her own values, is not a teacher at all.
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This approach, called Simulated Annealing, seemed like an intriguing way to map physics onto problem solving. But would it work? The initial reaction among more traditional optimization researchers was that this whole approach just seemed a little too … metaphorical. “I couldn’t convince math people that this messy stuff with temperatures, all this analogy-based stuff, was real,” says Kirkpatrick, “because mathematicians are trained to really distrust intuition.
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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.
