Ashraf Barhom Quotes
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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The center has shifted in our politics. I'm really at the center. And all the other candidates are to the right of me.
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My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.
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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
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For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
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I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.
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I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about.
