Ameen Rihani Quotes
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.
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So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
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We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
