Adnan Sami Quotes
I know we live in a materialistic world. I am not living on Cloud Nine; I am not living in Disneyland. I understand all that.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
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We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
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I know we live in a materialistic world. I am not living on Cloud Nine; I am not living in Disneyland. I understand all that.
