Adeel Akhtar Quotes
I've done lots of stuff, but it's rare for people to come up to you and be happy about the fact that it's been put out there, that it's something a bit different, something creative.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
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I had to live through being a woman who thought men always had a one-up... I knew I didn't like it. I thought that's how it was.
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I've done lots of stuff, but it's rare for people to come up to you and be happy about the fact that it's been put out there, that it's something a bit different, something creative.
