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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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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In Hollywood, they don't care about hurting anyone's feelings.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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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.
