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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An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.
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'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987
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The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship.
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When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
