Elia Suleiman Quotes
I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.
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We Are All in the Same Boat.
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?
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My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter.
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The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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I just get up and live my life for today - try and deal with it as it comes.
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The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore.
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I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.
