Noureddine Morceli Quotes
And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
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They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'
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It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed.
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You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in New York and you're loving life and it sounds great because it's like reading a book. When you step into that book and you actually have to play it out, for real, it's a totally different ball game.
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And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.
