Daniel Pipes Quotes
The increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims...will present true dangers to American Jews.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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These stories get made up, and I don’t know from where. I have no idea. I didn’t make that one up - sometimes I make my own stories up - but I didn’t make that one up.
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The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state (something that is by no means incompatible with honest barbarity), but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.
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The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
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I am working here Amsterdam on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!
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The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.
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The increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims...will present true dangers to American Jews.
