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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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
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At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.
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I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.
