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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In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.
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It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.
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Some films change your life a little.
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...you have to think about your options, weigh the consequences before you make decisions, but the advice was so worthless when it came to the things that mattered.
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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.
