Behdad Sami Quotes

I didn't make it to where I am today because of the support, more so because of the lack of it.

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• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Long
  • Success
  • Kind

• Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Done
  • Community
  • Comedy

• I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Guy
  • Shave

• So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Beginning

• I just sing. You have to use it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • You
  • Just
  • Sing

• Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Growth
  • Inspired

• I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Learn

• Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Endure

• Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Different
  • Done
  • Language

• If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Anything

• I'm basically nocturnal.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Basically
  • Nocturnal

• In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • World
  • Success

• I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Fear
  • Stop
  • Natural

• The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Question

• I've been really tryin, babyTryin to hold back these feelings for so longAnd if you feel, like I feel babyCome on, oh come on,Let's get it on.

  

  Marvin Gaye

• Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Temptation

• Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

  

  Boyd Rice
  • People
  • Power
  • Exercise

• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Average
  • Dressed

• Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Children
  • Future
  • Running

• True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • True

• I didn't make it to where I am today because of the support, more so because of the lack of it.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Support
  • Lack