Asra Nomani Quotes
There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
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I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'
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I want to stretch myself as an actor.
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I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.
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People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
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The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.
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I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.
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"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.
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It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.
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I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
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You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.
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By the nourishing spirit of the temple we can learn the reality, the power and the hope of the Savior's Atonement in our personal life.
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I think this is the beginning of a really cool period in music because what we've been living through has been mostly super-testosterone rock, and there's nothing wrong with testosterone but it is damn boring.
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The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
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There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.
