Bashar al-Assad Quotes
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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You have to be resilient.
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No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
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There's a movie called 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' where I'm playing the King of Spain. It's a small role, but it's really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.
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Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
