Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Past
  • Fashion
  • Inspiration

• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Work
  • Why
  • Government

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I was rubbish at school.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Rubbish

• When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Music
  • Myself

• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Opportunities

• I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • World
  • Hate
  • Enjoy

• There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Universe
  • Old
  • Theory

• In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • God
  • Men
  • Game

• People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• You have to respect your opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Respect
  • Opponent

• Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Nerd

• Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Opportunity
  • Living
  • Motives

• Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Career
  • Doing
  • Kid

• More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Money
  • Fate
  • Litigating

• When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

  

  William Hague
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Powerful

• I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Life
  • Father
  • Challenge

• I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Family
  • Money
  • American

• My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Father
  • Principles
  • Taught