Mustafa Akyol Quotes
The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.
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I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
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Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.
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People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously.
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The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.
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I like anything Jennifer Lawrence is in. She's so beautiful.
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I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.
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Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
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I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.
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We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.
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I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.
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They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.
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The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?
