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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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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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.
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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.
