Mohsin Hamid Quotes
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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The devil made me do it.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
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There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
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I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.
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It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.
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I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
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At TGC, we are firm believers in the value of making games that respect our players.
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The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.
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I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.
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I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
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As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.
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You used to defend your musical values to the hilt, but now if something isn't working, you just hop to another band. My youngest daughter went from Justin Bieber to the Jonas Brothers to Joy Division in the space of a few months!
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Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.
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Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.
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Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.
