Adnan Sami Quotes
While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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I don't read the critics.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.
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I don't think I should be telling you every 10 minutes what to think. I like to leave the audience alone with the magic. I tend to trust the material, or I don't do it.
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I always run without music. Being disconnected is what I'm addicted to more than anything. There aren't many places where you can be without your phone and computer. I've started to crave and enjoy that time alone.
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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
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While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.
