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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I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.
Andrew Stanton
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The good life is the best preparation for bad times.
Neal A. Maxwell
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Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
George Osborne
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I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
Honore de Balzac
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If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
