Najib Mikati Quotes
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
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When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
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There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.
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Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.
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My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.
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Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.
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Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.
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Well, it was evident that in ordinary cases, having tired one’s host, one would go away. But was this quite an ordinary case? She couldn’t think so. She couldn’t help remembering, though it was a thing she never thought of, that she had made way without difficulty for Stephen to come and live in this very house, giving him everything—why, with both hands giving him everything—and she couldn’t help feeling that to be allowed to stay in it for a few days, or even weeks, wasn’t so very much to want of him. Not that he didn’t allow her to stay in it; he was still assiduous in all politenesses, opening doors, and lighting candles, and so on. It was only that she knew he was tired of her; tired to the point of no longer being able to speak when she was there.
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The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
