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

• I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Writing
  • Romantic

• The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Up
  • Art
  • Experience

• Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Decisions
  • Accept
  • Mediocrity

• It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

  

  Anthony Sampson
  • Up
  • World
  • Destiny

• Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • People
  • Growing
  • Mom

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

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Destiny