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Ahmed Chalabi Quotes

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: iraqi
Birth: October 30, 1944 - November 3, 2015

Topics

Democracy Believe View Now Possible

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

People World Talking Look Way Going

I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.

Myself Farmer Look Back Go Market

If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now.

Good Luck Good Luck Year Long You

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

Water Government Drive Generation

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

Respect Parenting Job People Choose

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Matthew Ashford

Daughter Worry Lady Bad Looks Why

I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.

Man Dinner Writing Book Cold Face

Everybody complaining about their average and all that, but I wanted be in there where I can help my team no matter what situation. And a lot of days, I didn't have it.

Team Help Situation I Can Matter

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'

More Meat Complex Like Scissors

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

Time People Think Enough You Share

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.

Life Age Time My Life Wrong Young

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

Parents Hand Always Shut Up Up Nose

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