Ali Shariati Quotes
I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
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If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
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Water.
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You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
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Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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Make sure your work is never results-oriented. The result is a byproduct of the work, in a way.
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.
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The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here.
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You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
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I'm painfully shy.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
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I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.
