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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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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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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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
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You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.
