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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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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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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Our best thoughts come from others.
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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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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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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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I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
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Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
