Bassem Youssef Quotes
I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I love anything to do with history.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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All that matters is that China wins the finals, and not which one will be playing.
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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
