Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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This will end in tears.
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there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingto let anybody see you....I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep....he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdie...and it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don'tweep,doyou?
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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If I don't have the freedom to disbelieve, I cannot believe.
