Najib Mikati Quotes
I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Optimism is an expectation that good things are going to be plentiful. The wealthy generally have the sense that life will bring good rather than bad outcomes. That doesn't mean they believe that good things will be omnipresent, but that they will outnumber the not-so-good.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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I don't think I put too much pressure on myself.
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Seek after the good, and with much toil shall ye find it; the evil turns up of itself without your seeking it.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
