Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.
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And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.
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Me and Ashley feel like we're totally different.
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For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomenon of existence - it was more expedient and comforting.
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Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
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Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
