Taslima Nasrin Quotes
Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.
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I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.
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Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.
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Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.
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Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.
