Tariq Ali Quotes
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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It sounds like the Boy Scouts want it both ways. They want to be private and do what they want, and they don't want to follow the government and society in not discriminating against people - and they want the government's money.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
