Khaled Quotes

#1. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.

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#2. At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

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#3. Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

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#4. Do you even know how strong God has made you? she said. How strong and good He has made you?

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#5. Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

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#6. A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.

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#7. For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

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#8. Clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.

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#9. So important to keep the pathway of success clean.

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#10. But then it passed, as all things do.

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#11. People ... shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.

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#12. The world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.

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#13. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules.

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#14. We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

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#15. From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila

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#16. For a few unfortunate kids, winter did not spell the end of the school year. There were the so-called voluntary winter courses. No kid I knew ever volunteered to go to these classes; parents, of course, did the volunteering for them.

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#17. Who planted terrorism in our area? Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects - this is called struggle.

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#18. You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

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#19. We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to reach a common vision towards maintaining the constants of our people and deal with reality.

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#20. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ...

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#21. One of my keys to success is a lot of pillows. I feel like a lot of pillows is important to relax each piece of your body.

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#22. And that, ... is the story of our country, one invasion after another ... Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

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#23. Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. All

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#24. there is a field.

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#25. In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

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#26. What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

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#27. 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.

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#28. In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

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#29. But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

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#30. J'aurais du etre plus gentille - I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret.

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#31. You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want a good life for me. You're the one with the wretched heart.

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#32. I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

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#33. Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

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#34. I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.

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#35. Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

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#36. I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

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#37. One of my favorite songs is by Mavado. The song is called "Progress." It's something that I work out to every day. Progress is definitely the answer.

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#38. For you, a thousand times over - The Kite Runner

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#39. I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

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#40. Thats the thing about people who mean every thing they say. They think everybody else does too.

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#41. We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.

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#42. I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

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#43. I just didn't wanna put the pressure on myself to be in there [Def Jam South] to work as an artist and to have the hat as the executive with other projects.

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#44. I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.

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#45. God Has a reason

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#46. It blistered the eyes , beauty like hers .

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#47. He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

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#48. When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

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#49. The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.

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#50. It was like waking up one morning and finding that a wild animal has wandered into your house. No place felt safe to me.

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#51. I think the key is - other icons told me this - you don't have to chase the money. The money is going to chase you. That's part of success. That's part of the blessings.

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#52. Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

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#53. Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

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#54. Could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink your aspirations before your very eyes.

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#55. It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?

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#56. And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

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#57. Out beyond ideas

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#58. There's no monster...just a beautiful day.

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#59. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

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#60. Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

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#61. A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated ...

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#62. for you ,thousand times over

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#63. Those that weather the storm are the great ones.

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#64. The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

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#65. There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

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#66. Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin-roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. It was as though a rainbow had melted into her eyes. Rasheed

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#67. Key to more success is a clean heart and a clean face.

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#68. We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book.

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#69. Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

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#70. I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

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#71. Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand ...

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#72. I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

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#73. I didn't make the same song twice, but I definitely made the sequel to it, because everyone would come up to me in the streets saying, Yo Khaled, make another 'I'm So Hood.' We love that record so much.

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#74. EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
NW: Yes, but I did it the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebels with mathematics?

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#75. Working all winter shining all summer

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#76. The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

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#77. The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.

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#78. People learned to live with the
most unimaginable things.

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#79. Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

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#80. Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there.

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#81. felt as though I had been the one cuckolded.

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#82. Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

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#83. Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

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#84. Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

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#85. As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is a reality, but I won't deal with it in terms of recognising or admitting it.

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#86. When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings.

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#87. America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

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#88. A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

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#89. We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.

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#90. When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

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#91. So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

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#92. Perhaps, they reasoned, the poor, stringent lives

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#93. Happiness like this is frightening ... they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you

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#94. Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

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#95. I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, insanely, and without recourse

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#96. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

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#97. Hadn't we both yearned for escape, reinvention, new identities? Hadn't we each, in the end, unmoored ourselves by cutting loose the anchors that weighed us down?

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#98. With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets.

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#99. There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

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#100. I've know Jeezy before he was Jeezy. I've been down with Cash Money from back in the day. So these are real relationships. I'm there for them and they're there for me. And they know if I'm going to make a record with somebody, I'm gonna hit a home run.

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