Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
Ian Beattie -
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
Ban Ki-moon -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
Ignatius of Antioch -
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
Ada Lovelace -
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
Saint Bernard
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson -
Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
Olivia Colman -
When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
Jack Lemmon -
I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
Orlando Bloom -
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
Val Guest -
I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
J. J. Watt -
I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
Jacky Ido -
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
Walter O'Brien -
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
Rahm Emanuel -
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
Camille Paglia -
I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
C. J. Mahaney -
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
Kenneth L. Pike -
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
Alan Rickman -
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
Nathan Englander -
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
Randa Abdel-Fattah