Hisham Matar Quotes

In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.

Hisham Matar

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That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

Jimmy Iovine

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I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

Andre Rieu

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I believe it is actually fomenting the growth of ISIL; Donald Trump could be a recruitment poster for ISIL because he is fanning the flames of hate.

Andrew Cuomo

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I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

John Lydon

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You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.

Michael Morpurgo

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I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Louise Brown

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Joseph P. Kennedy

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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Douglas Hurd

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I was at the birth of my two girls.

Clive Owen

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In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.

Wladimir Klitschko

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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

Susan B. Anthony

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Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.

Twyla Tharp

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