Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
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  • Birth: November 26, 1939

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I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness.

Joan Didion

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It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.

Matthew Walker

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I've tried to choose roles where women are not just reacting or waiting for something to happen.

Ana de Armas

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I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.

Stephen Merchant

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I'm one of the nicest, most fair people I know.

Robin Givens

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The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

Romola Garai

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I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

Michael Sheen

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Oftentimes, rumors burn white hot only to fizzle as fast as they ignited.

Judy Smith

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I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.

Cornel West

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I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.

Chris Squire

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'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

Cobie Smulders

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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Arthur Ashe

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