Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Figure out who you are.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.
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I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
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Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.
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To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.
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Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.
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I think everyone in high school at one point feels like they're on the outside observing what's going on. Even if you're very popular, you have an outsider experience.
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I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.
