Annia Ciezadlo Quotes
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
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I used to always judge other people's mistakes in the mountains. I think a bit differently now. Everybody's gotten away with a mistake or poor decision out there at one point or another, but sometimes it catches up to you, or sometimes you're just plain unlucky.
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Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
