Bassam Tibi Quotes
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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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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Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.
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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.
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I really do know football.
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By the way, for the kids at home, Santa just is white, but this person is arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa. Santa is what he is, and just so you know, we're just debating this because someone wrote about it, kids.
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Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?
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I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.