Elia Suleiman Quotes
The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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I like to look good on the golf course.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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I leave the astronaut job with great memories but also great expectations for our country's future in space.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.
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Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.
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The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.
