Alaa Al Aswany Quotes
Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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Everything can be satirized.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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If you love animals, don't eat them.
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Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.
