Abdallah Salem el-Badri Quotes
We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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I should have only one cup of coffee a day. I try to do that most of the time, but sometimes on the road you need a little more.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
