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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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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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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I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
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Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
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I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better.
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Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.
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Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.
