Behdad Sami Quotes
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
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Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…
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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.
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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up watching 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Melrose Place,' I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.
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I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.
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As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
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I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.
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Hustle ... Your excuses are someone else's motivation.
