Reza Aslan Quotes

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Reza Aslan

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• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Great
  • Art
  • Comedy

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Single
  • Looking
  • Meet

• I like to prepare each tour in a different way.

  

  Maluma
  • Different
  • Way
  • Like

• When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Done
  • Going
  • Before

• Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Good
  • Education
  • Leader

• I think 'Lovin' Feelin' was probably one of the most - probably in '64 and '65, one of the more dramatic love songs for these kids to grab hold of. I mean, they had been listening to, you know, kind of cute songs, and 'Lovin' Feelin' was just a strong, powerful song.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Kids
  • Song
  • Strong

• Nude scenes aren't fun.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Fun

• Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Training
  • Gentleman
  • Marine

• We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• For any actor, it's very important to make your co-star comfortable.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Important
  • Star

• The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Life
  • Live
  • Identity

• I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Real
  • Food
  • City

• One truth opened another. Ona still shaded everything we did. Ona's death was the last family affair. I'd seen Man suffer. I'd seen her break. Now more than anything. I wanted to see her happy.

  

  Fae Myenne Ng
  • Truth
  • Another
  • Opened

• I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Feel

• The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • Up
  • Job
  • Brother

• Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • People
  • Ideology
  • Bigots