Tariq Ramadan Quotes
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.
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Words are so important to us, so vital to our beings, that we sometimes take this gift of ours for granted. We shouldn’t—words are too powerful to take for granted.
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It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
