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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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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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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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Whatever ought to be, can be.
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And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
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I went back and listened to the first three albums I made and tried to figure out what was special about them, why people keep going back to them. I think it was because I didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea if they were going to play it on the radio or anything. All I did was write songs, so that's what I got back to.
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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.
