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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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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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 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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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
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If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.
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Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.
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Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.
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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.
