Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?
