Ahmed Zewail Quotes
Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.
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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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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
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Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted?
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In my life, there are two things I've found I'm very good at: overcoming obstacles and motivating good people to do their best work.
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Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.
