Taslima Nasrin Quotes
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.

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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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Excellence always sells.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Online theft has changed the business model of filmmaking because the DVD market is very soft. So, more ambitious, compelling, character-driven narrative of a certain budget level isn't really a viable business model in the eyes of the studios right now.
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The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
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I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.
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'Yeah, I have a question,' said the guy with the wicked eyes... 'My question is, I quit. I'm going to quit.'
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I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.