Quotes About Beirut Lebanon

#1. I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

Ziad Doueiri

#2. I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

Richard Linklater

#3. Nothing is very constant in Beirut. Certainly not dreams. But despair isn't constant either. Beirut is a city to be loved and hated a thousand times a day. Every day. It is exhausting, but it is also beautiful.

Nasri Atallah

#4. I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

Jamie Lawson

#5. I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

Werner Herzog

#6. Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.

Martin Van Creveld

#7. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

Sylvia Earle

#9. People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb