Fatima Bhutto Quotes
Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when Benazir Bhutto failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
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I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.
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I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.
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I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.
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Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when Benazir Bhutto failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."
