Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
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Supply and demand constantly determine the prices of commodities; never balance, or only coincidentally; but the cost of production, for its part, determines the oscillations of supply and demand.
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It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.
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In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
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If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.
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Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.
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There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!
