Tariq Ramadan Quotes
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
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'That would require an unprecedented leap of faith.''I don’t do faith,' Scorpio said.
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The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
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Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
