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Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: egyptian
Birth: December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006

Topics

Man Wise Questions You Clever Tell

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Music Long You Know Want Listen

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

Andrea Mitchell

Love People College Literature Study

I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.

Robert Rodriguez

Time City Doing Sin Need Same

I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention.

Work Honor Say Juvenile Well Whom

We need a Commander-in-Chief, not a Campaigner-in-Chief.

Need Commander-In-Chief

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

Ideas Listening Think American Top

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

History Long Human Been Disease

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women School Law Late Class Over

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

Writing Reading Started Soon

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

Jonathan Levine

Think Trying You Career Want Never

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

I Am Serenity Feel Finding Know

Every song is like a painting.

Music Painting Song Like Every

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