Raza Jaffrey Quotes
When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'
Quotes to Explore
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I wanted to be a world champion.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
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So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.
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If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.
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When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'
