Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I never thought what I wrote was good enough to be published. I thought of myself as completely detached from that constellation of real writers. It was completely for myself.

Khaled Hosseini

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GoodMyselfThoughtEnoughNever

The boys know they're from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Angelina Jolie

MusicFoodPrideFriendsKnowAsia

My biggest enemy is typically me.

Andy Mineo

MeEnemyBiggest

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.

Michael Isikoff

JanuaryRedRulesTrueWellBeen

I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit.

Tom Sizemore

LifeMy LifeDetroitActorOutGet

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

Ronda Rousey

WorkTimeMeStartThinkYear

Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked.

Luis Suarez

FootballPrideSomeoneYouSometimes

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.

Julia Glass

PeaceWarMeStartLongSay

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.

Josh Hartnett

DailyPerspectiveMeProcessLiving

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

Dennis Miller

TruthMeCareEnoughSmilingYou

Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.

Coretta Scott King

WorkTodayNowYearsNonviolence

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

DieScarsWantWithoutJustFew

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

Brian Molko

PeopleMeSmallSomeoneMouthBeat

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