Tahar Rahim Quotes
We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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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 competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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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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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
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I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.
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We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
