Taslima Nasrin Quotes
When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
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In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, 'It will preserve jobs.'
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Don't just do something because it's a trendy idea and will make you a lot of money. The reason I say that is because any kind of venture involves going through difficult times. If you're doing something you are passionate about and really believe in, then that will carry you through.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
