Amin Maalouf Quotes
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.Amin Maalouf
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
Rachel Nichols -
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
Veronica Roth -
Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
Ramakrishna -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge -
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
Fidel Castro -
I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
Gavin DeGraw -
No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer -
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
Rand Paul -
The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Raghuram Rajan
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
Tatyana Tolstaya -
I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
Dan Rather -
The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
Zooey Deschanel -
One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
Gavin Bryars -
If you have less weight, you have less strength.
Ilya Ilyin -
I've always found the rain very calming.
Venus Williams
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I think I've had a very privileged life.
Frank Dobson -
Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
Natalie Maines -
I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Kate Winslet -
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler -
I always keep my repertorial hat on.
Mark Leibovich -
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
Amin Maalouf