Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
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There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
