Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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Sport is a great way to keep fit. It's a stress reliever.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.
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I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
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Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
