Ibrahim Hooper Quotes
When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.
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What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
