Daniel Pipes Quotes
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
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When we're filming, I sometimes look into the camera and wonder who's out there, who will be watching.
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Don't know much, but I know I love you.
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Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.
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You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
