Al-Farabi Quotes
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
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Some days I'll be like, 'I didn't do anything great today,' and I'll be bummed. And some days I'll wake up, and I'm like, 'I am the dopest woman to exist on Earth'.
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A man becomes a person thanks to the intellect.
