#in

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#amazing things #exactly #get #gets #going

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#adopted #allowed #around #being #explode

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view. ↗

— Michael Nyqvist

#actually #adopted #become #book #children

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#because #citizens #civilians #coherent #deal

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist. ↗

— Laura Nyro

#categorize #i #should #think #you

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#around #bringing #challenges #change #community

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bleeding #clean #cut #fighting #front

I believe in telling the truth. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#i #i believe #i believe in #telling #telling the truth

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#i #life #making #think #whole

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#country #economically #educated #educational #feel