Kamila Shamsie Quotes
Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.
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America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.
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Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.
