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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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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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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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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You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
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Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
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When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.
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In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.
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My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it.
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Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.'
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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.
