Bassam Tibi Quotes
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
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Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
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Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.
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I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.
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People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.
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A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
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I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.
