Arthur Rock Quotes
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.
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...words were said that could not be put right again...
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I'm absolutely amazed when some people say I am either hard or uncaring, because it's so utterly untrue. I can't say it because, if you say you are caring, it's like saying, ‘I'm a very modest person.’ Nobody believes you.
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I'm a nudist at heart.
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I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
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I'm not going to lie to you: being Speaker of the State Assembly is the best job I've ever had in my entire career. But you know, I got into politics 'cause I wanted to make a difference, and I was always raised that one person could make a difference.
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Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
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When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.
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Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan.
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Quiet, the Unicorn,In contemplation stilled,With acceptance filled;Quiet, save for his horn;Alive in his horn;Horizontally,In captivity;Perpendicularly,Free.
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I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
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Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
