Ali Soufan Quotes
Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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My mornings start with mom coming into my bedroom and waking me up, or trying to wake me up, and then I go back to sleep. Then my mom wakes me up again and yells at me. Then she'll get me to wake up, and I'll get dressed and go to school. We go to school, and my teacher tells me that I didn't do the homework well enough. And that's that.
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For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.
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The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
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There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
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That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.
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All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.
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But the second half of the message has been sorely neglected: the part about God’s dream that you become a precious and cherished son or daughter living in deep union with Him.
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It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving a deposit in their lives.
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Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.
