Ahmed Akkari Quotes
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
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Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
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A responsive administration is tested most at the point of interface between the administration and the people.
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When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half brokenhearted,To sever for years.
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My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.
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My day-to-day varies. I do some public speaking. I talk to school groups.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.
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'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.
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It is likely that many of the organizations reporting an intrusion did not realize the duration, extent or severity of the intrusion, or detected only a portion of multiple separate intrusions during the reporting period.
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There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.
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Georgian England was very radical; there were all these new revolutionary ideas, and I think women had more freedom than they did later on.
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Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
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Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.
