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'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
Val Kilmer -
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
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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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
Lucinda Williams -
I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
C. S. Lewis -
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this novel the New People, I listened to a lot of 90s hip-hop, which was just so genius. Also, all the musical references in the book from the Peoples Temple one and only album to Luther Vandross.
Danzy Senna -
I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.
Fred Upton -
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Oscar Wilde -
India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
Gary Weiss -
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