Deeyah Khan Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.
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Muslim women can save the world from ISIS.
