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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The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.
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There could never really be justice on stolen land.
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It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".
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There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
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A body in movement is its philosophy.
