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Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

Nawal El Saadawi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: egyptian
Birth: October 27, 1931

Topics

Veil Plastic Plastic Surgery Surgery

I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.

Art Blue People Me Say Seventies

Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

Government Thought Doing Look Done

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Milton Friedman

Finance Without Legislation Inflation

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Influence Think Because I Think

In 'The Bourne Identity,' I wanted to give the audience the feeling of being in the car with Jason Bourne, not just watching him drive but be in the car with him, and 'The Wall' is the continuation of that immersive filmmaking style. Where you're trapped behind the wall with Aaron Taylor-Johnson - for better or worse, you're trapped there with him.

Car Style Identity Drive Better You

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Truth Never Away Because Must Throw

Art is all in the details.

Christian Marclay

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

Music Country Country Music Something

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

Power Forward Political Party Never

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.

School Person More Awareness Saw

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

Law Saying Genocide United Against

Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.

Good Day World Want Way Need

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