Al-Farabi Quotes
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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I think human societies tend to be problematic.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.
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Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.
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It is time we admitted that we are not at war with 'terrorism'. We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.
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Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
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One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
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A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts
