Jahangir Khan Quotes
During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
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In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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The only way to consistently stay ahead of the game is to adopt a long-term view and, if appropriate, with a strong contrarian spin.
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During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold.
