Ismail Kadare (Ismail Halit Kadare) Quotes
In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.
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In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.
