Rashid al-Ghannushi Quotes
In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
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With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.
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He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her.
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I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.
