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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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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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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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
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Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.
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My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
