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.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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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.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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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.
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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.
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Coal is a portable climate.
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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.
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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.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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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.
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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.
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Let me make one thing absolutely clear. The National Health Service is safe with us.
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We don't believe we are too sexy for our hair.
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I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to.
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Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
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Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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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.
