Ali Shariati Quotes
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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Power to the peaceful.
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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
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Indeed the Idols I have loved so long Have done my credit in this World much wrong: Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup And sold my Reputation for a Song.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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There's a killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.
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I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.
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Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.
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To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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Theater was just what I was supposed to do.
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I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.
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Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.
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Moving to Trinidad was a great experiment. I never knew what it would do to my work or even if it would be accepted by people and not be seen as me just falling off the edge of the earth.
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We need visions of a future in which we have applied our infinite creativity to the task of living on a finite world, where we have embraced our role, become comfortable and proficient as planet-shapers, and learned to use our technological skills to enhance the survival prospects not just of humanity but of all life on Earth.
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What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.
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Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.
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The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.
