Adnan Sami Quotes

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

Adnan Sami

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • History
  • Past

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Think
  • Know
  • Me

• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Talk

• 'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Song
  • Kiss
  • Twilight

• There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Past

• ... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)

  

  Alan Kay
  • Single

• Is Brooklyn in the house? Without a doubt, I'm the rapper with clout everybody yap about.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • House
  • Doubt

• We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

  

  Alexander Hamilton

• Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

  

  Alain de Botton

• I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

  

  Derek Magyar
  • Art

• My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Job
  • Unity

• Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Moral

• The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • United States
  • Contact

• With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Real
  • Moving

• My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • Destiny

• This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Destiny