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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Cleaning and painting finished, the next target was the big ware press in the parlour. Out came delicate china which had been in the family for years. My mother's respect for the Stations weighed against her fear of breakage, but the Stations won every time. Once when a precious jug was broken she mourned it for days, telling us all how long it had been in the family. Finally, Dan, our part-time travelling farm worker, said, "Missus, if it was here that long it was time to break it." And that was the end of that.
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I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.
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President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.
