Adnan Sami Quotes
While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
-
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.
-
The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
-
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.
-
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
-
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
-
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
-
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.
-
Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
-
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
-
I don't read the critics.
-
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
-
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.
-
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
-
We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
-
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
-
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
-
Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
-
While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.
