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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You win with your feet. It looks easy, and it's not.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.
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My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength.
