Rabih Alameddine Quotes
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
