Jalal Talabani Quotes

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

Jalal Talabani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

Andrea Barrett

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The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.

John Oates

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'Pose' makes the case that it's important to have some sort of family structure, even if you have to create one. You know, if I go back home for a while, my mom will be like, 'Oh, I didn't really throw you out the house.' And I know so many other LGBT parents who don't really own or talk about the rejection, and it prevents healing.

Angelica Ross

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People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

Spike Lee

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You can conclude from the glossy surfaces of 'The L Word' that L stands for latte or Lexus and stop there. Or you can notice that in some of its less flashy moments, the show has staked a claim on Large - as in a larger, denser, more ambivalent imaginary world, populated by imperfect and riveting citizens of all sexual stripes.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

Robert E. Sherwood

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If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.

Tom Mison

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I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.

Roger Rees

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The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

Rob Corddry

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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Lord Byron

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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

Dick Armey

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