Ahmed Zewail Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Isn't Scientology one of those things where you really like someone and once you hear they're a Scientologist, you're like 'I'm out'?
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It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
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I hope I'm always learning something.
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An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary.
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What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.
