Faiz Ahmad Faiz Quotes
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
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I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.
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When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
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I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.
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Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
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Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
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I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
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I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.
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The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
