Rashid al-Ghannushi Quotes
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
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I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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I wear my prosthetics legs every day, and when I train in the gym, I call them my Lamborghini, because both legs and sockets, which extend up to my hips to keep the legs on via a suction seal, cost about $305,815.
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I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
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I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.
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I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
