Al-Maʿarri Quotes
Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
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I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
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You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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I feel overestimated.
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You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.
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All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
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A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.
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Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
