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

• My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Action
  • Value
  • Goals

• Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Planning
  • Grit

• Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Self-Denial
  • Self-restraint
  • Self-purification

• You're always getting a perfect vibrational match to what you predominantly give your attention to. But you've got to make the best of it. You've got to vibrate slightly different from where you are if you are going to improve where you are. You can't keep taking score of where your business is or your relationship is or your body is without continuing to create it as it is. To make improvement, you've got to reach for a different thought.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Attention

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

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Destiny