Ashraf Ghani Quotes
Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
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As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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Citizens should bear the responsibility to act.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
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I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.
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The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.
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I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.
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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.
