Amin Maalouf Quotes

I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.

Amin Maalouf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 25, 1949

Topics

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Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.

Jim Crace

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I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Robert Gossett

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I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

Matthew Ashford

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Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting.

Amelia Warner

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There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Simon Sinek

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When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I was given a chance to try announcing, and it was a job that, in the end, I did not care for very much.

Mick Foley

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It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

Juan Manuel Santos

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Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.

Chris Chocola

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When the decades pass and you're working in this business, the audiences get older with you. That's the nice part about it. They're so supportive and so loving.

Alice Ripley

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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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