Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.
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Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
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I don't even want to go back to '81.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
