Abdul Sattar Edhi Quotes

I do not have any formal education. What use is education when we do not become human beings? My school is the welfare of humanity.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

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• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

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• I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.

  

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• Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.

  

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• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

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• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

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• Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.

  

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• My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

  

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• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

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• I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

  

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• I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

  

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• I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.

  

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• My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

  

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• To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

  

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• I got sober, and I got happy again.

  

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• You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

  

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• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  

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• One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.

  

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• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

  

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• Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

  

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• My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

  

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• I do not have any formal education. What use is education when we do not become human beings? My school is the welfare of humanity.

  

  Abdul Sattar Edhi
  • Education
  • Humanity
  • Welfare