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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Breaks
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
- Beirut
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- Nov 07, 2020
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
- Oneself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020