Nadeem Aslam Quotes
Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.
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When I was younger, I did have some dresses that weren't the best fits, and it can definitely affect you during a match - if you're having to constantly pull the dress down, for example!
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.
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He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.
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Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.
