Tariq Ali Quotes
It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Life is a school of probability.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
