Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes
That's the beautiful thing about being an artist, is you can take risks and take chances and hopefully be secure enough to just keep going with it if you fall flat on your face.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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My books aren't autobiographical.
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They terrify lest they should fear.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
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That's the beautiful thing about being an artist, is you can take risks and take chances and hopefully be secure enough to just keep going with it if you fall flat on your face.
