Ziaur Rahman Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
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To new concepts correspond, necessarily, new signs. These we choose in such a way that they remind us of the phenomena which were the occasion for the formation of the new concepts.
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Golden hands. It is said that all Poles have them, and that this is how you know your place in life, by the ease of your hands, that whether you are born to make cakes or butcher animals, cuddle children or paint pictures, drive nails or play jazz, your hands know it before you do. Long before birth, the movements are choreographed into the tendons as they're formed.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.
