Arabia Quotes

• The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Turkeys, Names

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2001.

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• Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Directors, Looks, Four

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• You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  People, Saudi Arabia, Poverty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

  James Buchan

  Country, Dog, Men

  "Lifting the veil" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mistake, Oil, Giving

  ‘There is no right not to be offended’ by Mukund Padmanabhan, www.thehindu.com. October 6, 2012.

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• Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Play, Organization

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• Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.

  James Buchan

  Night, Men, Self

  "Lifting the veil". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Heart, Oil, Might

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• If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

  John Bolton

  Egypt, Iran, Turkeys

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• Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

  James Buchan

  Virtue, States, Claims

  "Lifting the veil". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• I saw a report yesterday. There’s so much oil, all over the world, they don’t know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, "Oh, there’s too much oil." They -- they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they’re our friends? They’re not our friends.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Oil, Yesterday

  "Donald Trump's Solution on Gas Prices: Take Iraqi Oil Fields". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnewsradioonline.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islam, Culture, Language

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• Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

  Michael Scheuer

  Saudi Arabia, Violence, Saudis

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• To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Islamic, Would Be, Mosques

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• But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Iraq, Keys

  "CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

  David

  Men, Needs, Desert

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• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

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• As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Silly, Fighting, Long

  "Fictional character: T.E. Lawrence". "Lawrence of Arabia", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

  Frank Carlucci

  Political, Needs, Crowns

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• I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Watches, Looks, Privilege

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• The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.

  Daniel Yergin

  Two, Lists, Persian

  "American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Brother, Ties, Cooperation

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• Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Real, Rights

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• You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Sleep, Autumn, Artist

  Letter to Eric Kennington, May 06, 1935.

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• There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

  Peter O'Toole

  Honor, Thieves, May

  "Fictional character: T.E. Lawrence". "Lawrence of Arabia", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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