Wadah Khanfar quotes

“These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.”
-- Wadah Khanfar

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“Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.”
-- Wadah Khanfar

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“Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.”
-- Wadah Khanfar

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“It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.”
-- Wadah Khanfar

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“For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.”
-- Wadah Khanfar

Source : "Wadah Khanfar: 'Be patient with the Arab World'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”

“Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.”

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.”

“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

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“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”

“Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.”

“Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”