Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Quotes
We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
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I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
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I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
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I always wanted to do a light-hearted entertainer, and 'Bruce Lee' is such a film. The brother-sister sentiment and the relationship between father and son will be very good. The comedy will be hilarious, but it is not a forced comedy.
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Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.
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I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.
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I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.
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Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.
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It's a little counterintuitive to people, that doing what people don't expect ends up being what people do expect. But that is true of Mac.
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Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.
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We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.
