Rabia Basri Quotes

You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.

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• The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Society
  • Color
  • Daily

• It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Role

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Night
  • Period

• I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Brand
  • Davey Havok
  • AFI-liner

• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Black
  • Kind

• My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Relationship
  • Needs
  • Stills

• You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

  

  Diana Ross
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• I turned around and she kind of had some tears in her eyes.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Tears

• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Power
  • Free
  • Individual

• Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • People
  • Family
  • Tree

• You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Coaches

• You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.

  

  Rabia Basri
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