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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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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But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.
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I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.
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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
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That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
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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.
