Bernard Lewis Quotes

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

Bernard Lewis

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• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

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• I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

  

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• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

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• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

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• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

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• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

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• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

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• I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

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• Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
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• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
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• Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

  

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• I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
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• And yet it moves.

  

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• I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

  

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• So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.

  

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• Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

  

  James Mattis
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• And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• I leaned back against him and rested my cheek on his shoulder. I could feel the river water dripping off of him. "Thank you" I whispered. When I looked up, I saw he was crying.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
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• I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.

  

  Harry S Truman
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• Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.

  

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• I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Direction