Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

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• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Influence
  • Skill

• It's actually very important to put a little foundation up into your hairline, or else it looks like your face is not yours - like someone just Photoshopped it on!

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Important
  • Face

• What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Control
  • Hand
  • Best

• Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Family
  • Catholic
  • Very

• If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Teenager
  • Street
  • Shot

• Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Brother
  • Definitely
  • Worker

• I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Lies

• Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Single
  • Reason
  • Note

• So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Earth
  • Church
  • Sympathy

• The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Tears

• The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Home
  • Experience

• I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • World
  • Great
  • America

• Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Work
  • Action

• I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Rock

• Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Small
  • Dance
  • Magic

• But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

  

  Christiane Amanpour

• The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.

  

  Paul Sabatier
  • Theories
  • Harvest
  • Plough

• If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

  

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