Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
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I believe in giving back.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.
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A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.
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I'm not a big fan of the Olympic Games. The ATP calendar is a bit complex due to the Olympic event.
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Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
