Alaa Al Aswany Quotes

If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

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• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Happiness
  • Absence
  • Striving

• Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Again
  • Seen

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Angry

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Work
  • Important
  • New

• After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • College
  • Couple
  • Effort

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Saying
  • Oil

• All of the stars rotate, have orbits around the center of the galaxy, and most of them go around the center of the galaxy in nearly circular orbits. They vary a little bit from circular, but they're predominantly circular.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Stars
  • Little
  • Galaxy

• I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Design
  • Wall
  • Mountains

• I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • College
  • Miserable

• If you're against same sex marriage but you laugh your ass off to Will & Grace, FUCK YOU holds up middle finger. You are a hypocrite pointing, and you're not allowed to pick and choose what you like from our culture, and leave behind the burden of inequality.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Marriage

• These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Good
  • Movie

• You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Life
  • Father
  • Party

• I love Felicity Jones. It was funny because I went to go see the 'Rogue One' set, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And she's so tiny, and elegant, and she's just so small. Everyone's so much smaller than they seem.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • God
  • Funny
  • Like

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Genius
  • Push

• The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

  

  Alaa Al Aswany
  • Good
  • Country