Taslima Nasrin Quotes
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.
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The fact that Edward Snowden didn't approach the New York Times hurt a lot. It meant two things. Morally, it meant that somebody with a big story to tell didn't think we were the place to go, and that's painful. And then it also meant that we got beaten on what was arguably the biggest national security story in many, many years. Not only beaten by the Guardian, because he went to the Guardian, but beaten by the Post, because he went to a writer from the Post. We tried to catch up and did some really good stories that I feel good about. But it was really, really, really painful.
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I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.
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Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
