Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
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In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout - Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
