Burhan Ghalioun Quotes

Being someone who prays or fasts doesn't mean you want an Islamic state. Islam in the form of the Iranian state has been defeated in the Arab world. All Islamist movements now want to copy the Turkish model.

Burhan Ghalioun

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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

Viggo Mortensen
- Life
- Important
- Country
Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.

Parker Stevenson
- Want
- Stand
- Strangers
That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Lady Gaga
- World
- Love
- Fall
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand
- House
- Control
- New
My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

Natascha McElhone
- Up
- She
- Hope
Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

Kaia Gerber
- Time
- Perfect
- Look