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Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Food Money Fly Go Will Neighbors

When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Live Speak Language Feel You Secret

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

John Berger

Home Man Language Place Say Human

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

Andy Murray

Sports Sometimes Used Younger Helped

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Failure Human Actions Principle

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

Michael Caine

Father Mother Age Wife School Speak

It's my job to be ridiculous.

Stromae

Job Ridiculous

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

Tommy Lee Jones

Wisdom Horse Easy You Find Actor

I did not take a calculus course until my second year of college.

Robert Coleman Richardson

College Year Take Second Course Did

Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

Roger Morris

Great Water Food Adventure Perfect

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Michael Tippett

Imagination Society Tradition Create

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

Misha Glenny

World Know Two Been Those Companies

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

Jason Robards

Me Motivation Want Bull Reasoning