Dubai Quotes

• Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Never Settle, Firsts, Settling

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• I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Opportunity, Giving, Worry

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• I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Sports, Hate, Fighting

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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

  Fareed Zakaria

  World, Ferris Wheels, Building

  Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Years, London, Months

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

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• It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.

  Bruce Sterling

  Years, Two, Interesting

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• The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

  John Conyers

  Party, Tasks, News

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• There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Talking, Needs, Homework

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• Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Thinking, Race

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• I always say the best Thai restaurant in Dubai is my home.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Home, Thai, Restaurants

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• If you're successful, it's important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can.

  Suresh Raina

  Successful, Shopping, Clothes

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• Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  Player, Class, Tourism

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• One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  People, Innovation, Characteristics

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• Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

  Arthur Frommer

  Thinking, Cities, Tourism

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• Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.

  Michael Strong

  New York, Powerful, Years

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• I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of place. It's really fun to perform there.

  Karl Wolf

  Fun, Kind, Grew Up

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I've been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It's something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It's absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Country, Fighting, Heavyweights

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• You land at LaGuardia, you land at Kennedy, you land at LAX, you land at Newark, and you come in from Dubai and Qatar and you see these incredible - you come in from China, you see these incredible airports, and you land - we've become a third world country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Airports, Qatar

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.

  Paul Goldberger

  Thinking, Cities, Ideas

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• You meet a lot of people [in Dubai] coming from a lot of different places. Even me, I'm always in transit. I don't stay anywhere too long. I like the energy that I found when I came here the first time. I start knowing people, and people start knowing me as well.

  eL Seed

  Knowing, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

  George Saunders

  Years, San Francisco, Venice

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.

  Chloe Sutton

  Team, Usa, Long

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• My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're spending billions of euros on them. In Dubai, the police drive Lamborghinis. These countries aren't poor. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states should take care of these people. They're closer, have the same religion, the same climate, the same culture.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Party, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

  Kevin Hart

  Australia, People, Black

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• No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  Government, Innovation, Growth

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