Deeyah Khan Quotes
There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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We translate into reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as we do thoughts of riches. But when our attitude toward ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
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There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.
