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 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 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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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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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
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I was happy because I made enough money to give to my parents. I made enough money to get married on. I made enough money to enjoy myself a little more than I would have if I didn't have enough money.
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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.
