Rabih Alameddine Quotes
I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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For people who seriously want to get into voiceover acting, clearly the most important thing is that you must be a good actor. That comes first. That's why celebrities get so much work in voiceovers - we've seen their work, we know they're good actors.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
