Taslima Nasrin Quotes
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
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Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
