Polly Toynbee Quotes
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.Polly Toynbee
Quotes to Explore
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
Bashar al-Assad -
All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
P. J. O'Rourke -
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
Vernon L. Smith -
I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
Magdalena Neuner -
History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.
Ellie Goulding -
Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
Chogyam Trungpa -
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.
George Clooney -
You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
Ernest Hemingway
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Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
Muhammad Ali -
Don't believe everything you hear on the street.
Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers -
We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.
Catherine Martin -
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.
Polly Toynbee