Najib Razak Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
