Charles Issawi Quotes
The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment - is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
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The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.
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There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.
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I used to go to the supermarket dressed as Peter Pan when I was about five years old.
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You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
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There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.
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It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.
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Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment - is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution.
