Umar Quotes
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
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Money cannot help lifting its head.
