Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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It was his way or the highway. And she was definitely not a way he had any intention of going.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
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I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.
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We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.
