Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes
There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do, besides high heels and magic powers.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.
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There is always one or a few artists who appeal to all sort of people, and, of course, I want to be one of those people.
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I want to be known as a triple threat. I have aspirations to win an Oscar and a Grammy, and I also want to win a Tony. I want to be one of those guys like Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr. that crossed all those barriers of entertainment.
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There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other.
