Mohammed Morsi Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
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I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils.. ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
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My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
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I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.
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The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
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A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.
