George Alagiah Quotes
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
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People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
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People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'
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War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
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Under Chairman Greenspan, monetary policy has become increasingly transparent to the public and the financial markets, a trend that I strongly support.
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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
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If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.
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A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
