Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.
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I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
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I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
