Bassem Youssef Quotes

I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

Bassem Youssef

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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.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Direction

• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Because
  • False

• I don't run behind authority.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Authority
  • Run
  • Behind

• A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Think
  • Try
  • Director

• 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.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Fighting
  • Beach
  • Routine

• The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Different
  • Story
  • Opera

• Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Me
  • Old

• Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

  

  Wendell Phillips

• Quien hace un paraíso de un pan, de su hambre hace un infierno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• 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.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • World
  • Mind
  • Small

• 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.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Peter Berg
  • She
  • Experience
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Work
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Relationship
  • City
  • Texas

• 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.

  

  Colleen Hoover
  • Book
  • Team
  • Reading

• 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!

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Progress
  • Racial
  • Incident

• Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Leads
  • Surroundings
  • Purification

• A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Free
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Sad
  • Brave
  • Warrior

• True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.

  

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • War
  • Age
  • Quality

• I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Warrior
  • Revolutionary