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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In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
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It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.
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I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.
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I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
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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.
