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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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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There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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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.
