Anand Gopal Quotes
Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
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Look at Rihanna. She's so sexy. She comes from Planet Sexy. I worship her. I really, really do.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
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The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
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When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.
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The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.
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If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
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It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
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You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
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Now my daughter's wedding is finished, I shall improve the economy in Taiwan.
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Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
