Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
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For kids in 2nd or 3rd grade, I would recommend the 'Dear America' series. Most of the stories in the 'Dear America' series, if they have black girls, are about them being enslaved, but they escape or do something really adventurous.
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There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
