Asmaa Mahfouz Quotes
As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.
Asmaa Mahfouz
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Irwin Shaw
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I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.
Naomi Watts
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Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.
Ted Sarandos
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Coal is a portable climate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love is the HeavenToward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, creatures - you and IAre rushing by the straight path of action right,Or winding laboriously on error’s path,All to reach haven there at last.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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I am a daughter of that land,Where the poet’s lip and the painter’s handAre most divine, -where the earth and sky,Are picture both and poetry-I am of Florence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
Benjamin Franklin
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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
Marcel Duchamp
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Let me make one thing absolutely clear. The National Health Service is safe with us.
Margaret Thatcher
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
Christopher Hitchens
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Mary Douglas
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
Buddy Rich
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You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.
Antonio Damasio
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The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
Kathy Bates
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The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.
Andrew Forrest
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The dynamic of how women and men are meant to interact, for those of us who are looking for a heterosexual relationship, is very broken, and it leads to a lot of really dysfunctional relationships, abusive and otherwise.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need. The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn, And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne.
Margaret Fuller
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As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.
Asmaa Mahfouz
