Elia Suleiman Quotes
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.Elia Suleiman
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
Lady Gaga -
I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
Kate Winslet -
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
Val Kilmer
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
Larry Hagman -
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons -
When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
Gary Lineker -
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
Barber Conable -
Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
Taylor Swift -
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
Ian Hacking
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It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.
Lindsey Buckingham -
I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
Christopher Eccleston -
Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.
Peter Brimelow -
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
Mark Shields -
I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.
Marcy Kaptur -
People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.
Colin Firth
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Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.
Elizabeth Dole -
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
Stephen Sondheim -
Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.
Kim Young-woon -
A book brings its own history to the reader.
Alberto Manguel -
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.
Elia Suleiman