Wadah Khanfar Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission
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The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.
