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Khaled Hosseini Quotes

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Khaled Hosseini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: afghani
Birth: March 4, 1965

Topics

Time I Am People Random Born Go

I drink to forget I drink.

Joe E. Lewis

Forget Drink

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

Tom Lehrer

People Me Writing Night Reading Up

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

Michelle Magorian

Children School Reading Ship Early

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.

Michael Servetus

Soul Care Wish Body Intellectual

We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

Dick Van Patten

Truth Food Pet Marketing Principles

Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.

Doug Harvey

Best Trying You Got Your Absolute

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

Dee Dee Myers

Time First Time First Bill Clinton

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

Bruce Rauner

Money Thoughtful Very Disciplined

As a former presidential campaign manager, I remember the final week of the campaign as being the longest and most important week of the campaign. The week doesn't seem to end.

Bob Beckel

End Remember Week Important Manager

Being married to Andy has given me a new appreciation for my body. He's taught me that it's not how thin you are that matters. It's how your body performs, how it endures wear and tear.

Brooklyn Decker

Appreciation Me You Body New Wear

Well begun is half done.

Aristotle

Brainy Done Half Well Begun

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

Good Great Man Same Seldom