"It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that."

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Source : "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

Bassem Youssef

#Running Quotes #Eye Quotes #Egypt Quotes

“I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.”
“Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.”
“I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
“Look past the garbage, over the trains, Under the ruins, through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me...where I fit in?”
“It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?”

Source : "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.
“A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]”

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