Alamgir Hashmi Quotes
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What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused
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The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
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I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.
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It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.
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Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.
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Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
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The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.
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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
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I believe that the ultimate object of all activities in a republic should be the development of the manhood of its citizens.
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Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
