Adnan Sami Quotes
I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I've learned never say never.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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The devil made me do it.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
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Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.
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We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.
