Ash Koosha (Ashkan Kooshanejad) Quotes
At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a bigger product than just music.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?
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It’s astonishing to me how many places in America, not way, way far away from cities, but in cities and near cities that don’t have access to broadband. And that disadvantages kids who are asked to do homework using the internet. 5 million of them live in homes without access to the internet. So you talk about an achievement gap, it starts right there.
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With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
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It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
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An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.
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At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a bigger product than just music.
