Top 28 Wael Ghonim Quotes
#1. Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
John Travolta
#2. If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet.
Wael Ghonim
#3. The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse.
Wael Ghonim
#4. If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#5. Huge numbers of people decided to take to the streets, some for no other reason than just to find out what was happening.
Wael Ghonim
#6. I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
Wael Ghonim
#7. I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
Wael Ghonim
#8. There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.
Wael Ghonim
#10. No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.
Wael Ghonim
#11. The Internet is not a virtual world inhabited by avatars. It is a means of communication that offers people in the physical world a method to organize, act, and promote ideas and awareness.
Wael Ghonim
#12. The most problematic word in America is the word "problematic." It's a wuss word used by people to silence language without actually saying that they want to silence you. They don't want to go full fascist.
Greg Gutfeld
#13. The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.
Wael Ghonim
#14. Penny wanted this kind of attention from the world. She wanted people everywhere to know her name and to love her. There, she'd admitted it aloud. But she couldn't do anything that would justify such massive public acclaim. She just needed a mentor, a teacher, someone to discover her.
Chuck Palahniuk
#15. I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.
Ralph Bakshi
#16. As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.
Wael Ghonim
#17. War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.
Rumi
#18. Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me,
Wael Ghonim
#19. Lord of the Flies is so boring ... and so weird. I always thought boys were very very strange, but I didn't think they would start eating each other.
Louise Rennison
#20. The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
Wael Ghonim
#21. The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.
Wael Ghonim
#22. But music lasts, even pop music. Especially pop music. Sneer at 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' if you want to, but people will still be listening to that silly piece of shit fifty years from now.
Stephen King
#24. We move like a platoon of silhouettes
balancing sledge hammers on our heads,
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#25. (State Security may not have been full of computer geniuses, but still, I had to be careful).
Wael Ghonim
#26. She was so fed up with unrequited love and platonic love and all the other kinds of love that weren't passionate, romantic, can't-live-without-you, I-have-to-have-you-right-now, the-beat-of-your-heart-matches-the-beat-of-mine love.
Sarra Manning
#27. The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
Wael Ghonim
#28. Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.
Wael Ghonim
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