Amal El-Mohtar Quotes
Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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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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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
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It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.
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Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.
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Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
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How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
