Tariq Ali Quotes
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.
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Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.
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The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
