Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes
The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I would like to live to 120, because conceptually, people can survive to 120. Every 20 years, it changes. So maybe, in the next 20 years people can go to space. I don’t know what the next revolution will be. I want to watch.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees - that is to say, friars.
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I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
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My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.
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The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.
