Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally.
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When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
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I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.
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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
