Beji Caid Essebsi Quotes
The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I have learned that there's a little bit of a danger in stressing ourselves out and living in the future - worry affects how we are today.
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Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
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When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
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The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
