Abu Bakr Quotes
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
