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Related I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, ... HANNAH SIMONE We were extremely relieved to win their release and get them out of Saudi Arabia, ... We worked ceas... STEVE ATKINS They just think it's normal, ... When they go back somewhere and tell people they were born in Londo... KASEY KELLER If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, includ... AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they... FRANK CARLUCCI It makes no sense to tax ethanol coming in from friendly countries like Brazil when we do not tax oi... GAL LUFT I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the r... ROBERT LACEY We don't want him to go back to Saudi Arabia. We believe he is under a death sentence right now. FRANCIS CARTER What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER So when I arrived in Saudi Arabia in August of 2001, as there was no chemical, biological, or nuclea... BRIAN CASTNER I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had... HANNAH SIMONE The Western oil companies have really been kept out of Saudi Arabia for many, many years, and I thin... ARCHIE DUNHAM I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I w... AYAAN HIRSI ALI If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon fr... BASMAH BINT SAUD I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursda... LEON CHARNEY Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremis... NICHOLAS KRISTOF we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle... FRANK CARLUCCI We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, i... JOHN CRAWFORD If you gave oil companies a choice between the tar sands in Canada or oil in Saudi Arabia, which do ... YASSER ELGUINDI My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years,... DAVID LAMBERT Yesterday we were down because of Saudi Arabia. In the past few days we have seen the fate of market... HANY HUSSEIN [Schwarzkopf and his field commanders in Saudi Arabia watched Bush on television and immediately gra... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we ... DANIEL WOODRELL As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in Am... HANNAH SIMONE Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was be... JOHN MAHONEY There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Eg... JEHANE NOUJAIM Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia. PRINCE ABDULLAH But if this is the victory rally it is going to be short-lived unless we get that perfect war that f... ANAIS FARAJ See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov... DAVID JOHANSEN My client believed he was a Yemeni working in Saudi Arabia. JASON BURNETT I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Ar... AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries. AL-WALEED BIN TALAL I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to ... DAVE EGGERS I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S... TAIYE SELASI Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral re... ALI ABDULLAH SALEH Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD My family has lived here for 200 years. When we came back here after the Cultural Revolution our old... BA JIN I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all m... KARAN SINGH GROVER I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then m... AARON PAUL The wind resource in the United States is comparable to the oil resource in Saudi Arabia. It's a maj... TOM GRAY Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Ever since the Gulf War ended, we've been working to try to minimize the amount of time and the size... ANDREW CARD We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining ... JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the ... SALMAN KHURSHID And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait? JOSE VICENTE RANGEL I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents... BONNIE MCKEE Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi ... ROBERT LACEY Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses ... PETER L. BERGEN We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourse... JON KRAKAUER It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL This is like Canada versus U.S.A. in North America. This feels good (to get to the final), but we ca... AKI BERG I wanted to curse. But then we had to go back out there. GREG BLUE In the first half, I bet we had five or six shots go in, and then come out. The separation could hav... MARK SANDSTROM We had lived in blissful anonymity until that story came out. There were photographers around the ne... MICHELLE WILLIAMS NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Allian... JAMES APPATHURAI He could have gone back to Saudi Arabia, but he's a madman, he wanted to prove that he's the hero. MUSTAFA MAHMOUD I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then... DAVID BOWIE I would say we had lots of opportunities to finish a couple of sets that were really close and to ev... GRACE SCOTT We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was... DANIEL YERGIN I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada... T. J. PERKINS Great entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia are interested in helping promote the Arab language. ANTONIO SARKIS JR And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - ... RINGO STARR While Saudi Arabia tries to usher in the post-oil era, its citizens struggle to adjust to a more div... ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like,... ARI GRAYNOR I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when ... KANDYSE MCCLURE The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear ... ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA In our outlook we only have two million barrels per day of spare capacity, most of which will be in ... GUY CARUSO But Saudi Arabia and Kuwait offer, I think, the best opportunities in the gas sector. ARCHIE DUNHAM You either have the feeling or you don’t. DANIEL HANDLER We had brake issues to start with, then a gearbox, then brakes again. Then we had some engine belts ... SCOTT DIXON When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's remarkable that we're not taxing fuel from Saudi Arabia while we're taxing fuel from Brazil. GAL LUFT Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the ... AL-WALEED BIN TALAL It stays on for about an hour and a half and then goes out for a few hours. Back in October, we woul... JILL CARROLL I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we s... JAMES CAMERON I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, ... HANYA YANAGIHARA The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic C... DAVE EGGERS It is not the first time that we are making security arrangements for the Republic Day celebrations.... BK GUPTA The embassy strongly urges all American citizens in Saudi Arabia to be especially vigilant when they... RICHARD BOUCHER that touch internally within Saudi Arabia. EVAN BAYH I really thought we came back in a hurry. I looked up and we were down 16. Then it was six and four.... KURT CUNNINGHAM First of all, there are aspects of culture which are really reprehensible, and we should [all] fight... AZAR NAFISI We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Inst... SENATOR JOHN KERRY We had to get back to attacking the basket. We got our perimeter shot going from the outside, and we... COLE MAXWELL I?d hop in the shower, get out and go eat, then go back in the shower. I had to keep doing the same ... DEANDRE HAYNES It's certainly interesting that again his daughter's working for ultimately oil interests. That's wh... BILL ALLISON Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And ... MICHAEL SCHEUER
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