We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. The... KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. The... KAY HUTCHISON The hotel in Mexico City is a U.S. subsidiary, and therefore prohibited from providing a service to ... BROOKLY MCLAUGHLIN Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion. H. R. MCMASTER The hotel in Mexico City is a U.S. subsidiary, and therefore prohibited from providing a service to ... BROOKLY MCLAUGHLIN The Nationals are coming together. JEFF KULLER We are very pleased to be able to lock up Nick Johnson, who we view as one of the core players who w... JIM BOWDEN People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of mon... LAKHDAR BRAHIMI If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. IAIN DUNCAN SMITH So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We are very suspicious about the role of British forces in perpetrating such terrorist acts, MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by t... DANA ROHRABACHER The nationals were held here in 1960, ANDY ANDERSON Both (of the dead) were Pakistani nationals. ABDUL RASHID Both (of the dead) were Pakistani nationals, ABDUL RASHID We just barely snuck in (to Nationals) because only the top 16 compete and we finished 16th. JOSE LARIOS We are only taking the top two wrestlers in each weight class on our team to the nationals. CARL MURPHREE They chose 10 riders in the nationals to watch, and will pick five. BRAD WILLIAMS Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS This is a big weekend to try to get qualified for nationals for people all over the country. DICK LEE I know for a fact it won't take another 30 years [for the next U.S. medal]. If you saw nationals, yo... TANITH BELBIN These brutal attacks are as horrendous, terrorist acts as any in the world. America has always chose... ABDUL SALAM I'd like to get to nationals and embody the message of first (place). LENNY HAAS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. DON MARQUIS Year-round we always go to tournaments and nationals and we do a lot of wrestling. JOEL HUTCHENS The police have arrested the perpetrators behind the shootings of American nationals in 2002. ANTON BAHRUL ALAM The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia categorically rejects such terrorist acts that target the lives of innoc... SAUDI ARABIA Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The next six games will dictate whether we go to the nationals this year. LEO GOLEMBIEWSKI While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global... JACK KEANE The people who believe it is okay to kidnap and rape are animals who must not be allowed to be part ... ZIZI KODWA You could see there was some sort of outside influence, either from nationals or from the university... JUSTIN HOROWITZ Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON That would be the junior B London Nationals. We're planning a reunion and alumni game for Hockey Day... BRUCE HUFF Rather than protests, we are asking Muslims to use their energy in getting the message across by con... RABIAH AHMED Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qua... RICHARD M. NIXON This is a tragic case but you've made something of it, ... This court seeks to deter further terrori... ROYCE LAMBERTH In 2002, foreign nationals accounted for over half of all engineering and math doctorates, and almos... CATHY MCMORRIS The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j... STEVEN MOFFAT Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot eva... JOSE AZNAR It was a disappointment not making nationals. GREG ALLEN Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE We have a string of five straight nationals appearances and we want to continue that. All seven runn... DAVE UHRICH I think it's an insult and an affront to every legal immigrant who's obeyed all the laws and done ev... TOM MCCLINTOCK The mental struggle started earlier this year when Katie broke her foot in the summer and we missed ... GARRETT LUCASH It was a good weekend. Now we have to regroup and play a couple before nationals. JOE SHARROCK Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Prot... JOHN CULBERSON It's a side issue. The security of Chinese nationals has been an ongoing issue. GILLES GUIHEUX Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional... BOB GRAHAM The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potent... PETER T. KING We put a new engine in for the final two qualifying sessions. The other engine got us through the Ri... GEORGE SMITH The thrust of the budget is to improve the standard of living of citizens, of course, to create more... ABDULNABI MACKI We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER It feels awesome to put my name up there with the others that have done it. Plus it gives me a lot o... CRAIG FORYS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, indepe... HENRY MORTON STANLEY [Small] has got the best training partner in the nation in Rush, who won the Nationals last year. Th... JUSTIN ROULEAU Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of pl... RUSSELL T. DAVIES I'm irrelevant to this sale. The Nationals decided to sell it long ago, ANDREW MURRAY There is a lot of preparation to be done. Some are just trying to get better for the conference meet... BOB KITCHENS It is such a horrendous situation that one cannot imagine, ... Casualties are increasing by the hour... AFTAB SHERPAO It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because... MAULANA WAHIDUDDIN KHAN It's harder to qualify for state than it is to the YMCA Nationals. That tells you how good the compe... BRIAN DICKMANN When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals. TRACY AUSTIN Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to ... ISOROKU YAMAMOTO The Bob Woodruff case in point, the sheer dangers for foreign correspondents to go out and get a sto... TALA DOWLATSHAHI The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul. RENEE AHDIEH I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Picture Muslims, Christians and Jews, Palestinians, Israelis, Jordanians and Americans, all in a liv... LEN TRAUBMAN From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE We are grateful to the U.S. attorney, his staff and the FBI and IRS agents who spent countless hours... MONA WILLIAMS You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly. WILLIAM GOLDMAN In 2006 she'll have to give up her title and compete in the Senior Division. She'll compete in Natio... DONNA SANDERS We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY It reports the acts of violence against Israelis but never mentions the illegal acts on the Palestin... HUWAIDA ARRAF Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there. MURRAY I. MESZAROS In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living i... GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots an... MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think th... STEVEN MOFFAT Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor... STEVEN MOFFAT Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
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MAHERSHALA ALI I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to wh... MAHERSHALA ALI There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of t... MAHERSHALA ALI 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have... MAHERSHALA ALI The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility. MAHERSHALA ALI It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so i... MAHERSHALA ALI Understand that we are all co-creators of our respective destinies. MAHERSHALA ALI Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you hav... MAHERSHALA ALI To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always ... MAHERSHALA ALI Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?'... MAHERSHALA ALI Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved fo... MAHERSHALA ALI Family are the people that can hurt you the most. MAHERSHALA ALI I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playin... NADIA ALI I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you l... NADIA ALI I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I... NADIA ALI The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it ... NADIA ALI I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebano... NADIA ALI As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am. NADIA ALI I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down. NADIA ALI I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights b... NADIA ALI Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me... NADIA ALI I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand ou... NADIA ALI Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance... NADIA ALI How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white fo... ALI SMITH