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Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.


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CHARLIE PARKER I don't play the tuba.
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KHALED HOSSEINI it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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KHALED HOSSEINI Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it&...
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KHALED HOSSEINI I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends...
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KHALED HOSSEINI Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. ...
KHALED HOSSEINI there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] ...
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KHALED HOSSEINI You changed the subject."
"From what?"
"The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
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Or the thousand splendid suns that hid...
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KHALED HOSSEINI On a high mountain I stood,
And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.
O Ali, Lion of God, K...
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KHALED HOSSEINI Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINI A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
KHALED HOSSEINI People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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KHALED HOSSEINI There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
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KHALED HOSSEINI In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
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KHALED HOSSEINI I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Intern...
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KHALED HOSSEINI It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you...
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KHALED HOSSEINI A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon....
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KHALED HOSSEINI Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
KHALED HOSSEINI It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted w...
KHALED HOSSEINI And I wrote you.
Volumes.
Volumes.
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Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
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It was always you.
Didn't you know?
KHALED HOSSEINI Good news equals good day
KHALED BESROUR Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty c...
KHALED HOSSEINI They will explain four main things: who our Prophet is, what Islam is all about, freedom of expressi...
AMR KHALED The reasonable among us must be heard and our voices must come out clearer than the voices of the ex...
AMR KHALED The Danish government should do a lot of things. The government should apologize.
AMR KHALED Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it...
AMR KHALED We feel there are forces of extremism which are aiming to light fires and transform Denmark from a p...
AMR KHALED Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
KHALED HOSSEINI Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful...
KHALED HOSSEINI Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say a...
KHALED HOSSEINI You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
KHALED HOSSEINI it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
KHALED HOSSEINI Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.
KHALED HOSSEINI At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancin...
KHALED HOSSEINI Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.
KHALED HOSSEINI Give sustenance, Allah.
Give sustenance to me.
KHALED HOSSEINI You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is...
KHALED HOSSEINI There is a way to be good again...
KHALED HOSSEINI I was greatly encouraged to launch this initiative after 93 per cent of some 80,000 Muslim youths po...
AMR KHALED When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of ...
KHALED HOSSEINI I say enough to the truce.
KHALED MASHAAL One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swel...
KHALED HOSSEINI The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I ...
KHALED HOSSEINI This of course is a big sum, and it is bigger than what Arab summits in Amman and Beirut had approve...
KHALED MESHAAL I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.
His saying that made me kind of...
KHALED HOSSEINI No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.
KHALED HOSSEINI I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
KHALED HOSSEINI It is illogical for the victim to be pressed to recognize its murderer and occupier. What is require...
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