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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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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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.
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Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
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To compete with Sophia Loren does not make sense. Sophia’s Sophia!
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I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor.
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Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
