Ayad Allawi Quotes
Since the state was dismantled in Iraq, institutions have disappeared and people have withdrawn into their clans and tribes.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.
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Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
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Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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A happy love needs to be reciprocated.
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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
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I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
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Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
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A matter which would be easily accomplished, as the best men of that State have already offered themselves to me.
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Since the state was dismantled in Iraq, institutions have disappeared and people have withdrawn into their clans and tribes.
