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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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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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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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.
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Willie's like a big brother to me. I came to him and I said I really wanted to be his understudy, learn the ins and outs of not just the game, but life outside the game, handling yourself off the field, handling your finances and then just handling yourself as a person and he's doing a great job of teaching me.
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To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.
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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.
