Bayazid Bastami Quotes
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.
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I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.
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I am definitely a beach person. In fact, I am so much a beach person that my wife is allergic to beaches now.
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.
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Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!
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I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.
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Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
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Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
