Rabih Alameddine Quotes

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

Rabih Alameddine

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • First

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Responsibility
  • Fighting
  • Army

• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Business
  • Want
  • Hand

• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • California
  • San Francisco

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Me
  • Years
  • Finish

• Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Ideas
  • Become
  • Approach

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Serious
  • Issues
  • Diabetic

• The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Self

• You read a lot of crap about photographic craftsmanship in those days, and technique; but you didnt hear shit about vision. I knew that I had an eye, a gift for seeing where the ripped edges of the world begin to peel away and something else shows through.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • World
  • Vision

• We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • People
  • Live
  • Earth

• As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Fire
  • Ego

• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Black
  • Funny

• Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.

  

  James A. Michener
  • God

• If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • God
  • English
  • Arabic