Bassam Tibi Quotes
In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
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I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.
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The friendship I had with Elvis began to take shape in 1968 when I was recording in Memphis. I'd record during the day, and Elvis would send one of his guys over to bring me to Graceland at night. Everything you've heard about Graceland during Elvis's glory days is true and then some.
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You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.
