Tariq Ali Quotes
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season.
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Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
