Ahmed Toufiq Quotes
I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.
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I'm always focused.
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Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.
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There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.
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When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
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A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
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We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
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It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'
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I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.
