Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

Mahmoud Darwish

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Morning
  • Body
  • Butter

• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Religion
  • Talk

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Man
  • Freedom

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Kind

• People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• J. J. Abrams is amazing.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Amazing

• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

  

  Alix Smith
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Words

• You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Person
  • Attitude

• You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • People
  • Crazy

• Look, if you take the best batting team in the world, they too will have their weaknesses - otherwise, wouldn't they win all the time? You mention any team to me, and I will pick out for you a dozen weaknesses. But that is not the point - these things, like fielding, running between wickets, all these are technical things, they can be learnt and practised.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Reality
  • Stronger
  • Palestine