Charles Issawi Quotes
Petroleum, Law of: Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
Charles Issawi
Quotes to Explore
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
Daniel Barenboim
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Mao Zedong
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
Maajid Nawaz
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
Banks
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As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
Ian Hacking
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
Quincy Jones
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
Zadie Smith
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
Larry Harvey
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Carl Jung
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
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See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.
Joel Osteen
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A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'
Courteney Cox
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
Salman Rushdie
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Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.
Ken Auletta
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A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.
Sai Baba
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Petroleum, Law of: Where there are Muslims, there is oil; the converse is not true.
Charles Issawi
