Ashraf Ghani Quotes

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• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Mother

• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Space

• Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Family
  • Me
  • Discovery

• I don't watch TV.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Watch
  • TV

• It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Learning
  • Whole
  • Aggressive

• I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Gossip
  • Nashville
  • ABC

• When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Passion
  • Born
  • Potential

• Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Advice

• When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Food
  • Diet

• I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Real
  • She
  • You

• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Different
  • Business
  • Hope

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Important
  • Survival

• Go to work on an egg.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Work

• Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Time
  • Children
  • Fire

• Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • May
  • Free
  • Ocean

• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Darkness
  • Go
  • Turn

• Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Respect

• This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Free
  • Hand
  • Blood