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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I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.
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We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
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Have you ever noticed how nice people are at the car wash?! Maybe it's just me, but it makes me happy. Weird, I know!
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My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so warm, generous, and kind-hearted. She never washed her dirty linen in public. She always maintained her equations with 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.
