Tariq Ali Quotes
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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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.
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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.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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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.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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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.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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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.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.
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In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
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I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
