Adnan Sami Quotes
My father was a great connoisseur of music and arts. He said, 'I will encourage you in anything you do, but make sure you get a solid education.' So, I studied in the finest schools and went on to become a qualified barrister but didn't take up law because my music was my area of interest.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I love New York. Love it.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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People tend not to dwell on drama.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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My father was a great connoisseur of music and arts. He said, 'I will encourage you in anything you do, but make sure you get a solid education.' So, I studied in the finest schools and went on to become a qualified barrister but didn't take up law because my music was my area of interest.
