Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FreedomGreatDayMeWorldTalking

I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

Jerry Jeff Walker

SuccessThinkFamousEasyRealDays

Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

Melissa Etheridge

FunnyWordsPeopleSongArtistGive

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'

Stephen Merchant

FunnyHeroSmartMeChanceThink

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

Shirley Manson

PeopleMeEnjoyOutFreakStamina

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

Russell Banks

LifeHomeBookReadingInteresting

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Mike Schmidt

TimeBaseballEffortBlackYouDirt

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

Mickey Gilley

KnowKnifeCountHowDrawer

If you liked my 'Ghost Rider' run, you're going to love what they're doing in 'Punisher.'

Jason Aaron

LoveDoingYouRunGhostGoing

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.

Jason Behr

TravelAnywhereAbleLikeInstant

You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.

Craig Horner

HeroStartToughLongYouNice

I'm having fun playing with clothes now. I didn't used to appreciate the clothes as much when I was modeling. It was a job.

Cody Horn

JobFunHaving FunAppreciateNow

Government is just spending too much money.

Bob Schaffer

MoneyGovernmentToo MuchJustMuch

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