Persis Khambatta Quotes
Every star, whether it's Harrison Ford or Robert De Niro, is remembered by one film. Persis is a star in the sky - how can a star be forgotten when all you have to do is look up and see her?
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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The urge to run, the restlessness.The heart of stone I sometimes get.The things I've done for foolish pride.The me that's never satisfied.That face that's in the mirror.When I don't like what I see.I guess that's just the cowboy in me.
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First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
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Every star, whether it's Harrison Ford or Robert De Niro, is remembered by one film. Persis is a star in the sky - how can a star be forgotten when all you have to do is look up and see her?
