Arfa Karim Quotes
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I write novels and other things.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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Even though it is, properly speaking, a postprediction, in the sense that the experiment was made before the theory, the fact that gravity is a consequence of string theory, to me, is one of the greatest theoretical insights ever.
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One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
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I love L.A. You definitely can't beat the weather, and being close to the beach is nice. It's a good town.
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I've always got the itch to play. I don't like sitting out too long.
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Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
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Technology evangelism has always been my passion since I learned how to use computers.
