Najib Razak Quotes
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I was a tomboy.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I've worked for over 11 years in the Muslim world, and the one thing that I feel like I've learned - who's to say if it's true or not true, it's just my experience - is that men don't like to see really strong, aggressive women in that area of the world.
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If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be
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The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
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Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
