Adnan Sami Quotes
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I've been training quite hard.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I want to play a character with grey shades.
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Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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I have had an extraordinary life, but it's been one incredible roller coaster ride.
