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 shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
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How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.
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Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
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The highest of distinctions is service to others.
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I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.
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The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.
