Adnan Pachachi Quotes
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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Whatever else he was during his life, he was never dull, and the world forgives almost anything but stupidity.
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My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
