Stéphane Charbonnier (Charb) Quotes
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
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The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
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You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
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After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.
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So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.
