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 can tell when men are threatened by my height.
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Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.
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I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed 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.
