"Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state."

-- Mohsin Hamid

#Growing Up Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Pakistan Quotes

“Life is about enjoying your success!! Success is nothing but weaknesses turned inside out...”

Source : FaceBook post by Hrithik Roshan from Apr 13, 2013
“I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.”
“Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.”

Source : "L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 640), 1997.
“The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.”
“Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.”

Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china (Nov. 20)". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.
“In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.”
“I love it when the coffee's done!”
“All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, thats about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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