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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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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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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If I'm feeling healthy - like, I've eaten well and have drank a lot of water and have clothes that feel good - I feel good.
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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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You put choice on the table, you change the whole game. Everything is about control. If an ad is interesting to you, you'll have the conversation with the brand. If it's not, it's a waste of time.
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I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
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I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.
