Moyez G. Vassanji Quotes
Marge Thompson with Karsan Dargawalla: I recall repeating the names, getting a thrill from their unlikely, gobbledygook togetherness.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really.
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I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.
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I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.
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I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.
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I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.
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The White House is a strange place.
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As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a 'good' version of yourself. And then when you're with your home girls, you're saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you're speaking the way that you're comfortable with.
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I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
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I feel more like an American citizen now than I ever had, and it's artistically fulfilling.
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I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.
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Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
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The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
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Marge Thompson with Karsan Dargawalla: I recall repeating the names, getting a thrill from their unlikely, gobbledygook togetherness.
