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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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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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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A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
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I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.
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The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.
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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
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Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
