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.Rabih Alameddine
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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.
Aaron McGruder -
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.
Abraham Verghese -
Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
La India -
I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
Caitlin Doughty -
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
J. J. Abrams -
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.
Malcolm Forbes
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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.
J. G. Ballard -
There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
Umberto Eco -
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.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
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?
Nathan Myhrvold
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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.
Jack Kevorkian -
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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln -
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
Sam Levenson -
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
Hannah Arendt
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The scouting community always looked at those guys as European players, until now. That may change.
Chris Wallace -
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
Gabriel Byrne -
I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.
Elizabeth May -
I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
Rabih Alameddine