Yousef Munayyer Quotes
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
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The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.
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I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
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I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, 'He's got a Latin temper!' If you're a white guy and you get angry, people are like, 'That guy's a jerk.'
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President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.
