Hisham Matar Quotes

Nothing makes you feel more stupid than learning a new language. You lose your confidence. You want to disappear. Not be noticed. Say as little as possible.

Hisham Matar

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It's fun to dress up and look good. And it's fun to try on clothes and wear a different jacket every night. It also helps you on stage to feel like you belong there.

Matthew Ramsey

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Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war.

Steve Bannon

WarProblemPartyCivil WarHere

For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.

Sugar Ray Leonard

GoodJobVideo GamesThinkPushSee

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Steven Pinker

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I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

Steve Schirripa

MyselfManDriveYouCelebrityClub

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

Tucker Carlson

GoodEmpathyStupidThinkYouClass

For me, one song is not enough to be in a person's world. I need to be in their world for 40 minutes; I want to fully experience it and immerse myself.

Shura

MyselfExperienceMeWorldSong

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

Martin Winterkorn

BrotherDataSecuritySayClearly

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

Miguel Ferrer

BusinessDoingYearsStartedStuff

Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain.

Michael McCaul

GovernmentFinancialBehaviorChina

Did I think it was hypocritical that a professional league making hundreds of millions of dollars off beer sponsorships was telling me not to drink? Yes.

Josh Gordon

BeerMeThinkProfessionalDrink

Meeting Kanye West was a blessing.

Desiigner

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