Naguib Sawiris Quotes
Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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There are emotional relationships in any business.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
