Iman Quotes
I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'
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A responsibility to be a role model as a father yes, as a man, as a public figure, yes. That responsibility just leads me to do what I feel is right and to conduct myself with the moral standards, principles, and integrity that were instilled in me by my family.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
