Adhir Kalyan Quotes
Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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China is illegally dumping steel in the United States and Donald Trump is buying it to build his buildings, putting steelworkers and American steel plants out of business. That's something that I fought against as a senator and that I would have a trade prosecutor to make sure that we don't get taken advantage of by China on steel or anything else.
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That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.
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I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
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I'm an old-fashioned guy.
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Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'
