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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Americans and French are notoriously monolingual, especially earlier generations. Language is a sense of pride in both cultures. I think that the French and Americans are like brothers or sisters who are so similar that they irritate one another.
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A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.
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That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.
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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.
