Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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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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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
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The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.
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I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.
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My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
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Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
