Ali Abdullah Saleh Quotes
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.
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Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be realised.
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I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.
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It began to be borne in upon Lord Ickenham that in planning to appeal to the Duke’s better feelings he had omitted to take into his calculations the fact that he might not have any.
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' It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.
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Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
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I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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Sometimes I think I don't want to grow old as an actress and deal with the fact that I'm getting less jobs 'cause my face is changing, and then the men... But at the same time, I'm pretty competitive. I don't know if I'd bow out. I might still be acting when I'm in a wheelchair.
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God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
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Ruling Yemen is hard. I always say it’s like dancing on the heads of snakes
