Taslima Nasrin Quotes
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
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My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
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A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
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In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
