Eboo Patel Quotes
The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The pluralists are far larger. Those of us who believe in a world where we live together - we're far larger. The problem is we haven't made our case compelling across the world yet.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I won't join another band again.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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A weak invention of the enemy.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.
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To be able to say, 'I'm going to be Snow White' - it's crazy. It's an honor.
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I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.
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The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The pluralists are far larger. Those of us who believe in a world where we live together - we're far larger. The problem is we haven't made our case compelling across the world yet.
