Ziauddin Sardar Quotes
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.

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A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole.
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Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
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We are now focused on the brand, not the channel.
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
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I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
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I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself.
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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
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I always connected renting a car with being an adult. If you think about it, it's the last frontier of your youth. You can join the military at 18, drink when you're 21, but you can't rent a car.
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We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.
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Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.