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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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"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."
"Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions."
"In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game."
"The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one."
"I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics."
"If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
"If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
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