Lukas Haas Quotes
I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and some of the other things.
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Employers are looking for individuals who can tell a story about what they bring to a particular company, and people with an understanding of that have a much better chance of getting to where they want to go.
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TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
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The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.
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I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.
