Behdad Sami Quotes
When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
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Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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My job is to stop Britain from going red.
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It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
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I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.
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I've got a fondness for rabbits.
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I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with.
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Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in... I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.
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With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.
