Bilal Philips Quotes
A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I try to be athletic.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
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I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
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I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did.
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I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smartest. She's the funniest. I love her so much. She's like the - it's like your best friend for the rest of your life.
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.
