Bassem Youssef Quotes
The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.
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Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.
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Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
