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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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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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'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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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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But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw was that?
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
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My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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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.
