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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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
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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.
