Bassem Youssef Quotes
I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
