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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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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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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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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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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A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
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I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.
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The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
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We don't even think about it out there. We just focus on doing our job. The ball is the same baseball, the game is the same game. We're going to just keep trying to do our jobs.
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But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.
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For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.
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Easy doesn't do it.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.
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Marge Thompson with Karsan Dargawalla: I recall repeating the names, getting a thrill from their unlikely, gobbledygook togetherness.
