Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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Australia exports millions of tons of coal each year to Asian markets. These same countries are interested in Wyoming coal. I look forward to visiting and seeing a vibrant coal port to better understand the benefits and challenges associated with this method of export.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
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I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
