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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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
