Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have, and I am trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition into different things at different points in my life, then that's fine. I also believe that if doors don't open, make new doors, so I've also started producing quite a bit of things.
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The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.
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Did you figure out the second head fake? This talk's not for you. It's for my kids.
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Now I have been raped.It happened twice. Once on Monday, and again yesterday. It is my Christmas gift from Christian America.
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I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.
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And when funny things happen, you just have to go along, don't you? Because they might never happen again and you'll have missed the joke of it, missed the fun, and then when you're old and your kittens ask you what you did when the world had its glad rags on, you won't have nothing to say, will you?
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The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
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*Mariam is having a flashback*
