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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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
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What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
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I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.
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I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.
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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.
