Najib Razak Quotes
You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.
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You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.
