Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

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• You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Live
  • You
  • Leather

• 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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Poverty
  • Slavery
  • Rights

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • English
  • Mother`s

• The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • American
  • America
  • Risk

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Own

• 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?

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Stupid

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Society
  • Picture

• 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.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Done
  • Growing

• I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Meaning

• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
  • Hell
  • Walk

• I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Better
  • Shoes
  • Feet

• We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Silent
  • Worlds
  • Spaces

• I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Time
  • Children
  • Wife

• I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'

  

  Lesley Gore
  • People
  • American
  • Help

• It seems that's where Bill Clinton came in last night because he told this long story about how they met with Hillary Clinton, how he courted her, how he bought a house to convince her, I think after the third proposal, to actually marry him. And he talked about her activism and her commitment and everything. And it was as if he could tell the narrative in a way that she couldn't.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • House

• I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't you happy to have me as a guest," you know? But artists did accept us and we remained friends for many, many years, many of them as long as they lived; like Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were very good friends, and it was wonderful.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Long
  • Country
  • Artist

• We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

  

  Al-Waleed bin Talal
  • Long
  • Hurt