Hisham Matar Quotes

I don't believe people are interested in dates and facts. I don't think it is interesting to say what it is to be this person or that, but I do believe it is entertaining and perhaps even of value to express how it is to be that person.

Hisham Matar

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Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.

Joe Gebbia

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Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

Johann Most

FreedomManControlThinkCareSeek

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

BeachWorldProblemsGuiltPlace

Politics is a pendulum.

Ana Navarro

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Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

Miuccia Prada

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Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

Mo Ibrahim

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It's always amazing to me how hard the crew works.

Johnny Simmons

AmazingMeHardAlwaysCrewHow

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Clive Barker

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And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

Claire Forlani

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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Christy Turlington

FearDailyDeathOutActUs

It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.

Brandon Stanton

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I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Philip Warren Anderson

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