Fawzia Koofi Quotes
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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A penny for the Old Guy
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I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
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I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.
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No matter how long my day has been, I never forget to remove my make-up and slap on some intensive moisturiser before I go to bed.
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For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.
