A. R. Rahman Quotes
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.
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When you're in the middle of it, when you're a kid growing up, you don't think, 'This is my first heartbreak.' You just think, 'My heart is broken.' But then as a parent, you look back, and you see your child go through his or her first heartbreak, and you're realizing, 'Oh my God, this is her first heartbreak.'
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The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
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My favorite goals are the ones when there's so much pressure. I focus more when the game is on the line.
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'Three Tall Women' is kind of fascinating. I had never seen it itself, and I imagine the audience will find it very intriguing to watch the reveal of who these people are and how they interact in the second act.
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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is