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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In Puerto Rico, there has developed a culture of taking out loans and not paying them back. That has ended.
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We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing bulletproof vests from the federal government. Two sets of applications, two different sets of personnel to approve those applications.
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One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.
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Make sure to answer these (3) empowering questions everyday (preferably in writing): Q1-What am I grateful for? Q2-What am I proud of? Q3-What results am I committed to creating today? -> Start now!
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Kendall’s eyes lit up. “You have no idea, Noreen."
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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.
