Habib Umar bin Hafiz Quotes
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four hours later and it will feel like it's been five minutes. I think that adds depth to your being, when something in your life can do that for you. Everybody should try to find something in their life that can do that for them. People find really elaborate self-destructive ways of killing time on this planet. That's why they take drugs or drink, trying to alter their state of being. If you can find something that doesn't destroy you, but deepens your character, you're really lucky.
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It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.
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The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.
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Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.
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A true Muslim is like rain, wherever it falls, it will benefit.
