Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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Many people worked with the inspiration to free the country by throwing the British out. After formal departure of the British this inspiration slackened. In fact there was no need to have this much inspiration. We should remember that in our pledge we have talked of the freedom of the country through defending religion and culture. There is no mention of departure of the British in that.
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I can barely turn on my computer!
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
