Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Quotes
The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.
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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don't want to say no to that... I just want to contribute.
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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
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The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.
