Sayed Kashua Quotes
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
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So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
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For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
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I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
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So, I'm thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of 'The Joker' as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.
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I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
