Abdullah Abdullah Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
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I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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My kids are very special; they can bring a lot of surprise.
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The scope of linguistics should be:
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What does dating mean?
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Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.
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I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
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Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
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It is a major challenge. We are aware of it.
