Nadine Labaki Quotes
I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.
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I wouldn't go so far as to make 'You Don't Own Me' a tango or 'It's My Party' a hip-hop thing. Believe me, those things have been suggested to me. But I thought if I could stay true to the song, the arrangements would work. I'm really enjoying singing them.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
