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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Open relationships aren't for me.
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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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My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.
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I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.
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Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.
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Marge Thompson with Karsan Dargawalla: I recall repeating the names, getting a thrill from their unlikely, gobbledygook togetherness.
