Omar Sharif Quotes
The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
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The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
