Waris Ahluwalia Quotes
Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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We want you to pay attention.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.
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Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
