Tariq Ali Quotes
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
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It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
