Sayed Kashua Quotes
I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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I love to perform live.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
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Tara: Well, I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's depressing.
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I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.
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I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.
