Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

Khaled Hosseini

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The first four years of my career, I never complained. I never demanded. I never said anything about money.

Jimmy Graham

MoneyCareerSaidNeverFirstYears

A founder plays a magical role at the company: they invented or, as in my case, co-invented it. If and when a founder walks out the door, there is something spiritual that walks out the door, too.

Andy Dunn

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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

John W. Foster

TimeBookReadingYouSpecialWhy

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

Dick Cavett

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I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

Clint Eastwood

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I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

Alison Elliott

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The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.

William Hurt

ChangeYouWanderDiscoveryActing

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

Peter Diamandis

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If businesses are being given relief, shouldn't the same relief be given to the American people?

Tim Walberg

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In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

Kit Williams

SimpleDirectionPointWestBeen

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings.

Julian Treasure

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The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

Jan Brewer

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