Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I like being unconventional.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.
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There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.
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The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.
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It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
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Tariq: For you, Laila, I'd go all over the world
