Behdad Sami Quotes
I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.
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Europe should be grateful by President Trump, because thanks to him we have got rid of old illusions. He has made us realise that if you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm.
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In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.
