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Hisham Matar Quotes

The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the 'ledger.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

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Live Lie Spring Political Logic

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

Life Great Man Think Thought Better

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

Music Soul Black Kid Soul Music

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

Daughter Grace Friends Write Up Six

In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.

People Ideas Outside Industry Come

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Education Great Discipline Mind End

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Children Together Think Grow Scared

We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

Change Change The World World Finding

You sparkle with larceny.

Sparkle You Larceny

I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower... just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I'm doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not.

Family Stars Music I Am Feel Doing

On my first TV job I didn't have a clue. They'd tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it's really about is pretending to be someone else.

Job Me Someone You First Tell

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

Day Building My Own First Classroom

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard J. Needham

Honesty Person More Honest Brutality

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