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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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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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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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that's a whole 'nother story.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
