Ziauddin Sardar Quotes
I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich overtones. So I must be careful to look at your identity, and that of others, in the same way.

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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.
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If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.
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Only when legislators judge that the risk of continuing to support Trump outweighs the risk of abandoning him will they begin to jump ship.
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Bochy is my guy. He raised me in the game; I was 20-years-old and as green as any grapes as you've ever seen on a vine. He took care of me, taught me how to be a professional, and taught me how to get my work done.
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I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.
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Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
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I have multiple identities. I'm British. I'm Pakistani. I'm a Muslim. I'm a writer. I'm a father. And each identity has rich overtones. So I must be careful to look at your identity, and that of others, in the same way.