Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Quotes
In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
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I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.
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In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.
