Umair Haque Quotes
The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.
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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.
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I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.
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The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
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The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.
