Tariq Ali Quotes
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.Tariq Ali
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
Warren Zevon -
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
Octavia E. Butler -
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian -
I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
Tanit Phoenix -
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
Randy Falco -
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
Daniel Espinosa -
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy -
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong -
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Salman Rushdie -
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
K. Flay -
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
Vanilla Ice -
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver -
You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
Vanessa Bayer -
Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
Kate Spade
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
Abraham Verghese -
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
Clara Barton -
If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.
Hillary Clinton -
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
Jeff Miller -
One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.
Enrique Penalosa -
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
Tariq Ali