Tariq Ali Quotes
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.Tariq Ali
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
K. Flay -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
Olivia Wilde -
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
Ian Williams Battles
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
Garrett Hardin -
My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
Zoey Deutch -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow -
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir -
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
Usain Bolt -
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian -
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs -
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis -
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne -
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.
Sigmund Freud -
Reason alone does not suffice.
Carl Jung -
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
Sean William Scott -
I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.
Jill Scott -
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
Tariq Ali