Agha Shahid Ali Quotes
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
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That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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The moon touched my shoulder and I longed for a vanished love.
