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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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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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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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
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I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
