Bill Konigsberg Quotes
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.
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My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
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Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
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I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
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What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation.
