Ibrahim Rugova Quotes
During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.
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I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
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We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.
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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
