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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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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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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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
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The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line.
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We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.
