Behdad Sami Quotes

Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

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• I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Lyrics

• Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Feeling
  • Know
  • Die

• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Support
  • Kind
  • Research

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Girl

• There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Real
  • Family
  • Inspired

• Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Religious

• When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

  

  Dan Pink
  • School
  • Law
  • Class

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Song
  • Learn
  • Balance

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Technology
  • Driven

• A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Air
  • Pessimist
  • Who

• I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Involved
  • Often
  • Campaigns

• I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Healthy

• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • God
  • Real
  • Trying

• I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Rock

• The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • World
  • Way
  • Like

• I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Space
  • Legacy

• I'm tired now of the elections.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Tired
  • Now
  • Elections

• For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect plurality, and to build, among ourselves, bridges and more bridges.

  

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Respect

• Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Opportunity
  • Focus
  • Dreams

• Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Goals
  • Now
  • Expectations