Akbar Ganji Quotes
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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Figure out who you are.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.
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The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
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April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
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Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.
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The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
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Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
