Ayad Allawi Quotes
Leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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A couple of times we make a mistake by being so aggressive, ... We come up and we probably had a chance to get the guy down, but we try to explode on him and miss a tackle.
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Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
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Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.
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No one conquers who doesn't fight.
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Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.
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In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself.
