Wael Ghonim Quotes

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

Wael Ghonim

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Philosophy

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Culture

• It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Country
  • Together

• I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Hero

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• He who awaits much can expect little.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Expect
  • Little
  • Much

• My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Up
  • Age
  • Father

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Hope
  • Here
  • Belong

• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Child
  • Creativity

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• You could take Vicodin, step out of the house, onto a freeway, have a truck hit you, and you'd say 'My bad!'.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Bad
  • House
  • Truck

• There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Kind
  • Opinion
  • Information

• Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• Yet people who benefit from all this now viciously defy Westminster, purporting to act as though they were an elected government; people who spend their lives sponging on Westminster and British democracy and then systematically assault democratic methods. Who do these people think they are?

  

  Harold Wilson
  • People
  • Democracy

• The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

  

  Wael Ghonim
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