Reza Aslan Quotes
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
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I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.
