Rabih Alameddine Quotes
As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
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I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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I'm very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It's very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
