Aly Khan Quotes

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

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• There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Universe
  • Decision

• There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Political
  • Model
  • Connection

• We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Being
  • Traffic

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Without

• My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Kitchen

• I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Champion

• I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Love
  • Running
  • Speak

• It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Fun
  • Day
  • One Day

• I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strong

• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

  

  O. Henry
  • True
  • Fate
  • Unknown

• A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Up
  • World
  • Stop

• I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

  

  Rami Malek
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Debt

• The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I was a trampoline gymnast. I had actually won nationals in my age group. So it was like one of those perfect, unbelievable miracles.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
  • Age
  • Perfect

• I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Happy
  • Hope
  • Know

• You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.

  

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Body
  • Release
  • Toxins

• I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Good
  • Light
  • Negative

• Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Black
  • Purpose
  • Struggle

• Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Powerful

• Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Society
  • Education
  • Support

• The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

  

  Aly Khan