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"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
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"I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning."
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"For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning."
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"I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning."
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"Winning is everything in Hollywood."
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"Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995."
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"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."
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"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."
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"Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable."
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"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."
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"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."
Autonomy
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
Diversity
"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
Cultural
"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."
Love
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
People
"I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me."
Love
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
Reading
"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."
People
"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
Being
"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."
Constitution
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