Rabia Basri Quotes
O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.
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O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.
