Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for people to have a better chance - is what I still believe is important and what I'm trying to do today.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
