Ziad Doueiri Quotes
I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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No man may make another free.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
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Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.
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As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
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When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.
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People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
