Nizar Qabbani Quotes
If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.
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There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.
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Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
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What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?
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If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.
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If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
