Tariq Ali Quotes
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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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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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Will the American Southwest become a giant Kosovo, a part of the nation separated from the rest by language, ethnicity, history and culture, to be reabsorbed in all but name by Mexico from whom we took these lands in the time of Jackson and Polk?
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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Everyone probably says this, but my favorite athlete is Tony Hawk. I'd really love to meet him.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
