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Jalal Talabani Quotes

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: iraqi
Birth: November 12, 1933

Topics

Thinking Reality Wishful Thinking

In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Will Predict Irish Question Stage

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

John Cassavetes

Talent Humility Gangster You Want

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

Anjelica Huston

Men Fight Me Doing Enough Movies

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

John Shelby Spong

Life Believe Guilt Humanity New Sin

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Life My Life Want More Seen Than

We soon believe the things we would believe.

Ludovico Ariosto

Believe Things Would Soon

I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.

Good Daughter Honor Feel Choose She

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

Work Character Man People Me Actor

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

Funny Stand Up Stand Find Know Say

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Learning Me Fly Airplane Thinking

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Business Art Right Delivery Starts

If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.

Constitution You Crime Punishment

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