Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: January 1, 1934

Topics

RespectYouGoUnited NationsSource

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

Jesse Ventura

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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Steve Allen

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When we go to Congress, there are strict rules about what I can be involved with and what I can't be involved with when it comes to business relationships and business operations.

Tom Reed

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People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

Tom Vilsack

OpportunityPeopleBelieveGrowYou

I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

Roberto Benigni

PeopleThinkAmericanKnowIdiots

I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'

Judy Blume

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I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

Bryan Adams

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If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Archibald Alexander

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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.

Ato Essandoh

PeopleMeTryingYouLookGoal

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

Audrey MacLean

NetworkingThinkInternetCloudYou

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

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