Wael Ghonim Quotes
I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
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Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship with music, sometimes it needs all three and become a video projection.
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A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
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Likeminded folks shop in the same circles.
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
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When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
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I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
