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Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Time Me My Life Literature

I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

Melissa Etheridge

Life Music Me Moving My Life Doing

So often, in films, there are two ways a female can be portrayed: either innocent and virginal or the complete opposite.

Innocent Two Opposite Complete Ways

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

Future Hope Together Stand Creating

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Learning Never Always Defense Knew

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Tired Citizen Being Like Treated

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

Singing Voice Nice Human Human Voice

My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were - 'Jewnitarians,' as I like to say.

Michelle Huneven

Mother Sometimes Say California Like

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Think Self-Righteous Because I Think

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

Think You Secrets Way Afraid Going

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Don Miguel Ruiz

Truth Believe Assumptions See Take

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

Life Best Me My Life Messed Up Jump

This is something no one in the world has ever done.

World Done Something Ever

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