Walid Muallem Quotes
If a close ally of Iran like Syria went to Iran and said, 'This peace is in our interest,' what do you think would they do? I can tell you they have never opposed any of our peace moves since 1991.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I don't like attacking.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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It's funny because it's true, and also it's the kind of humor that makes you think.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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If a close ally of Iran like Syria went to Iran and said, 'This peace is in our interest,' what do you think would they do? I can tell you they have never opposed any of our peace moves since 1991.
