Richard Engel Quotes

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago.

Richard Engel

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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

Anish Kapoor

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When people talk about my charm or looks, it is very flattering. Of course, every woman likes compliments, but I don't take them too seriously.

Ana Ivanovic

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I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like.

Ruth Wilson

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When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.

Mitch Hedberg

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I think, in comedy, you only hit about one or two great characters in your career. Sometimes my character will be just a sketch... what is the funniest situation to put this person in?

Julia Davis

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I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

Jonathan Carroll

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When people are funny, I like to let them know that they're funny. There's so much negativity, it's cool to get some positivity out there.

Dolph Ziggler

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Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

Chloe Sevigny

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Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.'

Peter York

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The U.S. must remember - as the Gadhafi loyalists have and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are now realizing - that it cannot get into bed with groups affiliated with the jihadist movement.

Pete Hoekstra

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People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

Pauly Shore

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