Reza Aslan Quotes
I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.
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I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.
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When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
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I never in my wildest dreams thought that I'd have merchandise selling on a web site. It's just amazing to me.
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I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.
