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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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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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue.
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After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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It's really not easy to be an artist. It's not easy to put yourself out there and be honest. I'm making things that are really happening to me, and it's not easy to share that with the world.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
