Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes
There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Those who will not dance will have to be shot
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Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus, I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put in me. If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.
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Bad beliefs make bad behavior.
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There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.
