Tariq Ramadan Quotes
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.
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Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
