Abdel Hakim Abdel Samad Kamel (Hakim) Quotes
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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Bullies always have another target.
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My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
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I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.
