Adnan Sami Quotes
My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.
