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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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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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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Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature
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For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
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Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
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There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.
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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.
