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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Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.
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I've come to the conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society. You might think I'm off base, but every day around half the people in this country go out of their way to prove me right.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
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'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
