Asma Barlas Quotes
Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can bear.
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I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.
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I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
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The American people fear there is some gouging going on.
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Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.
