Asmaa Mahfouz Quotes
All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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I adore 'The Chipmunks.'
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
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I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.
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I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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Wouldn't it be ironic that the very year the World Potato Congress is bringing all these international visitors, we take famous potatoes off our plates?
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I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
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All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power.
