Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
