Anousheh Ansari Quotes

If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth...

Anousheh Ansari

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  Sam Palladio
  • Time
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• Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

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• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

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• I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

  

  Ed Harris
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• The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

  

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  • Time
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• It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Time
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  • Over

• A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.

  

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  • Like
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• Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • New
  • Generation
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• I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

  

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• I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Win
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• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Night
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• I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

  

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• I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Support
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• On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

  

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• Science grows like a weed every year.

  

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• Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

  

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• My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.

  

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• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  

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• You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
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• If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth...

  

  Anousheh Ansari
  • Earth
  • Perspective
  • See