Bassam Tibi Quotes
A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
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I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
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Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best
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I try to work to improve myself every day and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
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The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.
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A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
