Adnan Sami Quotes
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.
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If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
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It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.
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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
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Concrete concepts are not necessarily the simplest ones. A novice best remembers 'being at' a concert. The amateur remembers more of what it 'sounded like.' Only the professional remembers the music itself, timbres, tones and textures.
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Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new occupation force. It's the corruption of that moment that I am really interested in.
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It's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.
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We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.
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I will surely pen my autobiography.
