Bernard Lewis Quotes
Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the rest of the world. And they have had this all through the centuries and are very much heightened by modern communications. I mean now you have Muslims in the Muslim world who can compare their situations with people elsewhere and they find that very humiliating.Bernard Lewis
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
Samantha Power -
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills -
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel -
These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
Wayne Knight
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
Abby Wambach -
I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
Becky G -
I think that I've had a very strange life.
Joanne Rowling
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An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
Yair Lapid -
Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
Yoko Ono -
People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
Irvine Welsh -
You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.
Dana Perino -
Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
Aaron Swartz
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I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.
Mandy Patinkin -
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
Jan Vogler -
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Johan Huizinga -
Silence ensures that history repeats itself.
Erin Gruwell -
Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the rest of the world. And they have had this all through the centuries and are very much heightened by modern communications. I mean now you have Muslims in the Muslim world who can compare their situations with people elsewhere and they find that very humiliating.
Bernard Lewis