Ameen Rihani Quotes
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
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I might have faults but I'm not a big head.
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By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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Making people laugh is what I really enjoy.
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'Alas! fair Rowena,' returned De Bracy, 'you are in presence of your captive, not your jailor; and it is from your fair eyes that De Bracy must receive that doom which you fondly expect from him.'
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Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
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For all of my career, I have believed that America has a responsibility to lead in the world. That's why I was one of only a few Democrats in the United States Senate to vote in support of the use of force to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
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I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.
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We're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.
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Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.
