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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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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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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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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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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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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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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The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.
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I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
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I don’t need your love. I just need you now.
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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.
