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've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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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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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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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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Architects need to restore and protect.
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The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
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My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.
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A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.
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There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
