Fareed Zakaria Quotes
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
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Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?
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Playing at the Opry, for me, it has such a history. It feels sort of like a coming-out party as a country artist. To know your heroes have played here is kind of crazy.
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For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back.
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I grew up in Mumbai.
