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

• The Destiny of EarthseedIs to take root among the stars.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Destiny

• Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.

  

  Edgar Snow
  • Destiny
  • China
  • Saviour

• And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

  

  Phoebe Cary

• In all of our efforts, we must be mindful of competitive pressures at home and abroad. Manufacturers are no longer simply competing within our borders. We share the marketplace with countries like China where the average manufacturing worker earns 61 cents an hour.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Home
  • Borders
  • Worker

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

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Destiny