Najib Mikati Quotes
Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I studied Morse code.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
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I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
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People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.
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I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
