Naguib Sawiris Quotes
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.
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We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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I don't run behind authority.
