Adnan Sami Quotes
When I was obese, I reached a point where I was about to meet death, and I lost weight to restart my life.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.
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I am the most skilled parallel parker the world has ever known.
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Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.
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When I was obese, I reached a point where I was about to meet death, and I lost weight to restart my life.
