Rabih Alameddine Quotes
For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.
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There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
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I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.
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It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.
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It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.
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Here is tragedy-and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.
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No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...
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All knowledge is to some extent interpreted.
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
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The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
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I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.
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But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.
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For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.
