Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I don't really go out at all.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
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We must not look for some kind of Messiah.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
