Walid Muallem Quotes
Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.
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Ars adeo latet arte sua.
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Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.
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Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?
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School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.
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Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
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I love any event in the United States because I treat it like it's my home, my house. And I'm going to protect it.
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Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism
