Behdad Sami Quotes
Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story — fake and fraud that it is.
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Absence of failure does not constitute success.
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Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.
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Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go.
