"Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree."

-- Sharif Abdel Kouddous

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #Law Quotes

“Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.”
“"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."”
“You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who say really anti-feminist things, [and] other people who think they're one way but act another.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.”
“I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.
“Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.”

Source : "My jailed Harry Potter co-star is the victim of a make-believe world" by Jessie Cave, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.
“As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year ...”
“If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog.”

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