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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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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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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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
