Ashraf Ghani Quotes
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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Words are all we have.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
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Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
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Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
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It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.
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My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
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In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it.
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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.
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Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.
