Behdad Sami Quotes

Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.

Behdad Sami

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• Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Late
  • Fast

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Business
  • Single
  • Day

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Meaningful
  • Authority
  • Him

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Greatest

• There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Science
  • Me

• I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Know
  • Always
  • Jokes

• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Game
  • Lucky

• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Feeling
  • You

• I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Hiking

• so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • She

• YOU LYING WHORE!!! You used me! You never loved me! I hope you slide under a gas truck and taste your own blood! DIE! DIE! DIE! I want my records back! I want my fucking records back!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Truck

• To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Understanding
  • End

• If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Character
  • Breathe
  • Alive

• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Fire

• My hobbies are run-on sentences.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Running
  • Sentences
  • Hobbies

• Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Ambition
  • Adversity
  • Wishing