Fidel Castro Quotes
The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I've always been a narcissist.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.
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President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
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In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
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Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
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The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
