Khaled Hosseini Quotes
And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.
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I always wanted to make a living as an actor living in New York. A New York actor. What's better than that?
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I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
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And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
