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 and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.
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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'm not superman who saves both Earth and the girl.
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The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
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It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
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Marge Thompson with Karsan Dargawalla: I recall repeating the names, getting a thrill from their unlikely, gobbledygook togetherness.
