Umar Quotes
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I don't do meetings.
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Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.
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There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.
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I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.
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Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.
