Burhan Ghalioun Quotes

Syrians have a national identity beyond the sectarian divide. Syria's national identity would be weaker and poorer if it didn't have this beautiful pluralism between Arabs, Kurds, and sects.

Burhan Ghalioun

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• Sectarian Divide

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• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Strong
  • Party

• I'm not a Democrat.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democrat

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Man
  • Woman

• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Start
  • Brothers

• I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Last

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Never
  • Far

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Think
  • Team

• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Financial
  • Fight
  • Others

• Public interest is a very unruly horse.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Horse
  • Interest
  • Public

• The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Good

• Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate conservative politics.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Trolls

• I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Music
  • Fall

• My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

  

  Penn Jillette

• When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Up

• Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Girl
  • League
  • Humorous

• To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Identity

• Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Pride
  • Identity

• Syrians have a national identity beyond the sectarian divide. Syria's national identity would be weaker and poorer if it didn't have this beautiful pluralism between Arabs, Kurds, and sects.

  

  Burhan Ghalioun
  • Identity
  • Syrians
  • Sectarian Divide