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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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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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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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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They used to confide in me about how they hated it. I told them, 'You knew what you were getting into. You accept his money. You accept the status when you're around him. But you don't want to deal with the backlash of what comes out of his mouth, and you want to complain to me.'
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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Money cannot help lifting its head.
