Wasif Ali Wasif Quotes
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
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When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.
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My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.
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All economic forecasts are subject to considerable uncertainty. There is always a wide range of plausible outcomes for important economic variables, including the federal funds rate.
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Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
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Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.
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In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.
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Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.
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On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.
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Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
