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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When you look at all this massive data that comes in from our senses, and it all has to come in through this central point, it's really interesting that we can identify the filter that our mind is using to select what it thinks is relevant and what it's going to forget.
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Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
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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.
