Adnan Sami Quotes
If my life and music brings a smile or makes a difference in any individual's life, then there is nothing beyond for me as a god's gift.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
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A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
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When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar. I write on that guitar, and it's the first guitar that I put a pickup in and ran through an amplifier, splitting the signal to the amplifier and a DI or in the studio mic'ing it traditionally and putting an amp in the other room.
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The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.
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If my life and music brings a smile or makes a difference in any individual's life, then there is nothing beyond for me as a god's gift.
