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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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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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 think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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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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There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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'Paranormal Activity' was the first of our independently made/studio-released films. It was also the ultimate low-budget high-concept movie, which is what we are always looking for. 'Paranormal Activity' was the genesis of our model, of which I am so proud.
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Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird.
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Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.
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I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea
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I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.
