Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes
In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
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In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.
