Bashar al-Assad Quotes
I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
 
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	My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.   
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	I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.   
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	It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.   
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	Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.   
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	There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.   
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	The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.   
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	The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.   
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	Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.   
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	I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.   
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	In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.   
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	I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'   
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	I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.   
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	I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.   
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	I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.   
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	I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.   
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	I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.   
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	I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.   
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	Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.   
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	I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.   
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	My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.   
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	I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.   
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	No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.   
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	I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.   
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	I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					