Irrfan Khan Quotes
Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around. This has really been a wake-up call in terms of what's important, and I'm working hard to figure that out. I need to get better at not doing favors for people all the time. It's hard because there's so many people who have helped me get to the point where I'm in a band that people wanna come see, or where people pay money to see me lecture.
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The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
