Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes
Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.
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I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.
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Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.
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Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
