Yousef Munayyer Quotes

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

Yousef Munayyer

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• When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Disappear

• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Good
  • May

• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Follow

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Day
  • Moment
  • Next

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• Manners are love in a cool climate.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Cool
  • Manners

• A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Great
  • Real
  • Understanding

• Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Trust

• The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, 'Abba, Father.'

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Today
  • Dream

• I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.

  

  Ty Cobb
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Different

• There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

  

  Eric Braeden

• Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Life

• I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• Winning is definitely contagious.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Winning

• Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • People
  • Experience
  • Running

• If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Good
  • Dead
  • Torture

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?

  

  David Carradine
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Fire

• I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Judging

• Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Accountability
  • Torture