Ali Farahnakian Quotes
Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Live fast, die young.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.
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When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.
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But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours—the great trees, the tempered sunlight, the glimpse of the old church at one end, the glimpse of the embosomed lake at the other, and in the middle, set out so neatly, with such a grace of spotlessness, the table of her first tea-party.
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It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.
