Faran Tahir Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
