Ahmed Zewail Quotes
As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.
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My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.
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My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.
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As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.
