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.

Adnan Sami

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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.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Perfect
  • Desire
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Goal
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Country
  • Communist
  • Lawyers

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Spiritual
  • Only
  • Zeal

• 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.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Liberal
  • Sexual
  • Orientation

• People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Want
  • Walking

• 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.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Capitol

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Model

• 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • You
  • Vogue

• And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Information

• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

  

  Anthony Swofford
  • Use
  • Weapons
  • Antiwar

• The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • World
  • Dating

• If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

  

  Blake Lively

• There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Drug
  • Vanity
  • Thrill

• 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.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Music
  • Live
  • Freedom