Nelly Mazloum Quotes
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.
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The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
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The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.
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I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
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Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.
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A body in movement is its philosophy.
