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.
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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.
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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.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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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.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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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.
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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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.
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A despotic power makes slaves.
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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.
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I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s.
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I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
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This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.
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I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I'll be happy.
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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.
