Ahmed Zewail Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'
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The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.
