Ahmed Zewail Quotes

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.

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• Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Girl

• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Men
  • High
  • Girl

• We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • America
  • Health

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
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• The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Life
  • Best
  • Child

• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Best
  • Protect
  • Used

• I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Cities

• The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Political
  • Decision

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
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• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• Hey guys, there isn't gonna be a Plan B. You called me in to bring the thunder and that's what I'm gonna do.

  

  Jack Black

• A despotic power makes slaves.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power

• I’m just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn’t have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

  

  Clifford D. Simak

• In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

  

  Adolf Hitler
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• Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

  

  Kyan Douglas
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Enlightenment

• I left high school very early. I was 17. So I guess it wasn't that early, but I did not get a high school education.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • School
  • High
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• I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Night
  • Trouble
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• The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Chaos
  • Weather
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• For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.

  

  Ahmed Zewail