Bassem Youssef Quotes
When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.

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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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You are beautiful and perfect and lovely HOWEVER you are.
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You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge.
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I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.
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When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.