Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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They hate whom they fear.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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I can't tell you precisely how much participation there will be from India in the One Belt, One Road, but what is clear is the understanding that it is important for us to develop neighbourhood trade.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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We lit the whole world up before we blew up/I still don’t know just how we screwed it up.
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I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.