Bassam Tibi Quotes
The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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To move forward you have to give back.
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There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.
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Enough about you let's hear about me.
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In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.
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It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians."
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The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
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The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged.
