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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Everything about a date is weird, especially if it's a new person you don't really know. You want to take them somewhere you think they're going to like, but you don't want to ask that question because you want to look like you're in control of the situation. So I think dates are just weird in general.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
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Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.
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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.
