Tariq Ali Quotes
When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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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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Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
