Bassem Youssef Quotes
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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I don't run behind authority.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Quien hace un paraíso de un pan, de su hambre hace un infierno.
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It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a small percentage of my head. I don't mind talking about it, but I always worry that it's gonna seem to the outside world that that's all I think about.
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We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.
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What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.
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I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
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As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
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I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.
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Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mature trade relationship with Mexico, and I want to make Arizona a leader in this area also.
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With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual songs while reading the book. I contacted Amazon and discussed the idea with their Kindle team, and they were very enthusiastic about it.
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Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
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Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother … had found true feminine fulfilment.
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Playboy: What's behind the current's men's movement?
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I think everyone just likes what they like. And fashion is something that I have found a lot of 'like' in.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
