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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A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.
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We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.
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The elections are behind us and we don't see anything in front of us but the future of Lebanon.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
