Ali Farahnakian Quotes
The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.
Quotes to Explore
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
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Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.
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Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news.
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Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.
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We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
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Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.
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For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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I played for my first church service when I was nine years old. I was sufficiently tall to be able to reach the pedals. The first hymn I played was Bringing in the Sheaves, and to this day I can play it in any key. I graduated to a Hammond organ a few years later when we went to another church, and then in high school came one of the loves of my life, the pipe organ. The sound of the pipe organ still gives me a thrill, whether soft strings or drowning out the orchestra as in Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra.
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I'm not a businesswoman, I'm not organized. I've never been commercial. I never looked after my negatives, and you need that to prove you took the photos. There have been 200 books on the Beatles...and almost all have used my photographs. It wasn't just with the Beatles. If other friends wanted, say a passport photo, I'd shoot one off and give it to them, often with the negative.
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Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.
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The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.
