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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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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We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.
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Human beings cannot endure emptiness and desolation; they will fill the vacuum by creating a new focus of meaning. The idols of fundamentalism are not good substitutes for God; if we are to create a vibrant new faith for the twenty-first century, we should, perhaps, ponder the history of God for some lessons and warnings.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
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Most of our lives we live closed up in ourselves, with a longing not to be alone, to include others in that life that is invisible and intangible. To make it visible and tangible, we need light and material, any material. And any material can take on the burden of what had been brewing in our consciousness or subconsciousness, in our awareness or in our dreams.
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Just because women whore doesn’t mean they don’t have hopes or dreams or desires of their own. There is little glamour in taking strange men into your bed.
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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.'
