Omar Ahmad Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I was an English major in college!
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
