Adnan Sami Quotes
I was 230 kg, with a size 81 waist. I couldn't buy anything off the shelf and needed more than one tailor to measure and stitch my clothes.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
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I like working on my birthday, so I always do.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something.
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When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.
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We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
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Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.
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Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
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There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
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We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is.
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The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
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I was 230 kg, with a size 81 waist. I couldn't buy anything off the shelf and needed more than one tailor to measure and stitch my clothes.
