Rabih Alameddine Quotes
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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Craft is everything.
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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
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Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
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Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.
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People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
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You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
