Pardis Sabeti Quotes

So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.

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• I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Me

• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Like
  • Hands

• I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• For me, opposition is just another opposition.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Me
  • Just
  • Another

• I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Today

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Me

• I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World
  • Band
  • Sacrifice

• I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Worry
  • Books
  • Fan

• Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

  

  Tabitha King
  • People
  • Eye
  • Understand

• We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • World
  • Know

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • World
  • Me
  • Cute

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • World
  • Myself
  • Find

• I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Work

• Being in front of the camera is a lot of hard work, and I'm not cut out for it.

  

  Gauri Khan
  • Camera
  • Hard Work
  • In Front

• I am well aware that I am the umblest person going... My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Thankful

• Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Know
  • Stop

• I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Forever

• So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • World
  • Today