Tariq Ramadan Quotes
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Truth is the best defense.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.
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The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
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Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
