Umera Ahmad Quotes
The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
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Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
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It's a terrible feeling being lonely.
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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
