Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
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It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
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I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Mariam: I can't beleive what you are now, if you were a Benz before.
