Abdus Salam Quotes
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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Generosity is only benevolence in practice.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
