Ali al-Sistani Quotes
It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.
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Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
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On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
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Men lie all the time.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
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How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
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(Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'
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The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
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Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
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When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
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Meetings should be great - they're opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a table to directly communicate. That should be a good thing. And it is, but only if treated as a rare delicacy.
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I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.
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Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
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Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
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It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.
