Tariq Ali Quotes
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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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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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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It's always cool to go back home to Augusta, especially during The Masters week.
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The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.
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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
