Nargis Fakhri Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.
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The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.
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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
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There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
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I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
