Beji Caid Essebsi Quotes

When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Listen
  • Get

• Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • World
  • India

• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
  • Country
  • High

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
  • Recovery

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Treatment
  • Respond
  • Even

• You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Book

• I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Day
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• When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Forever

• Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Past
  • Question
  • Challenge

• I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Without
  • Activity

• I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Academic

• When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Country

• The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Painting

• There was very little drama and performance at my school, so I've never forgotten the people who did encourage me and I've thought whether it would be a good idea to even get in touch with them and just say thanks, because they really opened a door for me mentally and emotionally - that's really important.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Women
  • Difficult
  • Room

• When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.

  

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