Hanan Ashrawi Quotes
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.
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There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
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Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.
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You cannot rob me of free nature's grace,You cannot shut the windows of the skyThrough which Aurora shows her brightening face.
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Coconut oil. I rub it through my hair, all over my skin, all over my body. Natural's the better way to go.
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I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.
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I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.
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The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.
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The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
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We are still in the middle of the competition.
