Atifete Jahjaga Quotes
We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
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People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.
