Waris Ahluwalia Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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When I get mean, I get mean.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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I love anything to do with history.
