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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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
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I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
