Behdad Sami Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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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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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I wouldn't be me if my repertoire wasn't bel canto.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength.
