Alija Izetbegovic Quotes
When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom - you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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I've been so private. That's part of the reason they've said, 'Is Romeo gay?' No. I just don't want to show you my girl - if I got a girl.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
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I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
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When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom - you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.
