Omar Amanat Quotes
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.
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The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.
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Nobody came without their sequins roaring.
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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.
