Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Quotes

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: royalty
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  • Birth: October 21, 1969

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LeadershipCulturePeopleYouSystem

It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

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WorkLiveMeWinBookImpossible

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

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LifeMotherGodWalkGetting Older

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

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YouWayWriterBeforeFigurePut

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

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I AmWorldHorizonNowMoreOnce

General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.

Toussaint Louverture

KnowledgeTimeSimpleManMeTrying

People who drive slow in the left lane on the highway! Are you kidding me? Don't you see everybody passing you, honking and flipping you off? It's not because everyone else is crazy, it's because you're driving slow in the fast lane, you jerk! OMG! It makes me crazy!

Rob Riggle

PeopleMeCrazyDriveSlowDriving

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

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ComedyWatchingUpBritishTVGrew

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

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MyselfThinkWeirdWatchJustRoar

I was honestly a Catholic.

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CatholicHonestly

Now, I love movies so much, but I find a lot of movies to be arrogant in the way they're kind of know-it-alls - they have perfect characters on the screen that know everything about themselves.

Derek Cianfrance

LovePerfectFindKnowMoviesKind

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Doris Lessing

MoneyWinningLovelyAwayGive

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Christopher McQuarrie

TimeWritingOldYearsWanted

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