Agha Shahid Ali Quotes
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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I would hate it if my four boys were bullied as I was.
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I think it's dangerous to look at every Muslim woman the same and to assume that every experience within the religion is the same, meaning that there are going to be strong and assertive women that are Muslim. There's going to be a more passive woman who just so happens to be a Muslim. There may be a funny, big-personality woman and she's Muslim.
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If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The world is full of paper, write to me.
