Ameen Rihani Quotes
In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.Ameen Rihani
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
Arthur Daniel Miller -
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman -
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel -
I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
Adam Clayton U2 -
My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
Manolo Blahnik -
Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
Walter Cronkite -
To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
Walther Bothe -
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart -
I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
Nadine Velazquez -
I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
Larry Kramer -
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
Oriana Fallaci -
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
Ram Charan -
India has a very good tradition in tennis.
Venus Williams -
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth II -
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I would like to thank the Western diplomats, especially Mr Solana and Mr Robertson, because their contribution truly benefits humanity and us Albanians as well because we are part of the great European family.
Javier Solana -
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter Scott -
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
John Updike -
In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.
Ameen Rihani