Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

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• I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Look
  • Figures

• I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Understand

• I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Director

• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • You
  • Opinion

• I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Think

• As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • You
  • Impact
  • Selling

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Fight

• Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Thinking
  • Cool
  • Geographic

• Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • You
  • Easy

• I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Girls
  • Disguise
  • Fragile

• Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Find
  • Glamour
  • Clothing

• If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Reality
  • Popular
  • More

• Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Good
  • Money
  • Black

• As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kind

• No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

  

  E. B. White
  • Live

• Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.

  

  Zubin Mehta

• 'This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches-why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Why
  • Dog
  • Connection

• You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

  

  James Whistler
  • Good

• Every time I win, I prove something: I'm the best guy in the world at what I do.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Time
  • World
  • Guy

• Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Innovation
  • Capitalism
  • Shortfalls

• The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Dresses
  • Bows
  • Expressive

• My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

  

  Al-Waleed bin Talal