Amir Khan Quotes
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
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Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.
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I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
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If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
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The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.
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I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
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In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
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I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.
