Hamza Yusuf Quotes
The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
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The world is too violent right now.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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The true Gospel has it that we are justified by faith alone, without the deeds of the Law.
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We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.
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Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
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The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.
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Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
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The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
