Tariq Ali Quotes
The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.
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Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
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The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.
