Top 21 Robert Lacey Quotes
#2. It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.
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#3. There was no law that explicitly banned women from driving in Saudi Arabia. There is none today - the Kingdom's notorious female driving ban is a matter of social convention, fortified by some ferocious religious pressures. So some Saudi women started looking thoughtfully at their Kuwaiti sisters.
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#4. What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy.
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#5. Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft.
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#6. I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.
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#7. It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest.
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#8. Whoever wins society will win this war.says Prince Mohammed bin Nayef
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#9. There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.
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#10. So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.
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#11. Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
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#12. If an election were held here tomorrow," Fahd once confided to a colleague, "Bin Baz would beat us without even leaving his house.
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#13. It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.
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#14. My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
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#15. When Ali was killed by a Kharijite wielding a poisoned sword during Ramadan in A.H. 40 (A.D. 661), he became one of the earliest victims of Islamic terrorism.
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#16. The House of Saud had executed Juhayman. Now they were making his program government policy.
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#17. We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef
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#18. Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
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#19. Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.
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#20. Better that anger should be directed into jihad abroad than into Iran-style revolution at home.
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#21. That woman," Bandar liked to say of the British prime minister, "was a hell of a man.
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