"Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt."

-- Penelope Lively

#Successful Quotes #Egypt Quotes #United States Quotes

“All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.”

Source : "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.”
“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused”
“BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.”

Source : "Destructive 'Agnosticism'" by Yitzhak Santis, www.haaretz.com. November 26, 2010.
“For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Music begins where the possibilities of language end.”

Source : Interview with Berlingske Tidende, June 10, 1919.
“It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.”
“Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.”

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