Bassem Youssef Quotes
I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.
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What’s your problem? Why can’t you just be happy for people instead of seeing the world through the haze of your own misery?
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I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
