Samuel P. Huntington Quotes
The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.
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From my childhood, I am like this. I never go parties and attend functions.
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You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
