Nur Muhammad Taraki Quotes
We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(
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We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.
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Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.
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Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
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People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller," and it would really aggravate me. I thought I was a one-trick pony, and people had seen the trick. Now that things have worked out and I've gone on to other things, I'm really pleased that people enjoy it.
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Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.
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Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit,-Life!
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I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.
