Ahmed Chalabi Quotes
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
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It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
