Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.
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Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?
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As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!
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Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
