Behdad Sami Quotes
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
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It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.
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I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
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Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.
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There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
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The best part about using success as revenge means no 25 to life.
