Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.
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I believe religion is man-made.
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Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
