Rabih Alameddine Quotes
Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
Quotes to Explore
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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I think it is most appropriate that the President of the United States, whose business place is in Washington, should come to this city and participate in these rallies. Because the business of the Government is the business of the people - and the people are right here.
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Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.
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If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
