Hisham Matar Quotes

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

Hisham Matar

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MyselfIdentityThoughtConfident

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

Meles Zenawi

AttitudeProblemNationalSomalia

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

LiveWisdomTragedyLivingTool

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Jeff Tweedy

TimeYourselfSwimmingEnergyYou

As I have often said, acceptance of the idea of shared mobility is going to be one of the major disruptive trends in the automotive industry.

Anand Mahindra

AcceptanceSaidTrendsIndustryIdea

George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don't even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

Steven Wright

HomeSchoolHigh SchoolLovedKnow

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

Ronnie Wood

FaceYouKnowPaintArguingWell

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Mary Roach

AnimalThinkKindSleepingMindsUp

When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'

Michael Pena

HumorWaitComedyYouDarkDrama

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

Jonathan Larson

LifeCommunityDayDeathWorldBond

I'm the man that brought you the mullet.

Bono

ManYouBrought

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

Brad Paisley

InterpretationLiteralSongsOur

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Arianna Huffington

QualityPromisesHorizonSolidarity

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