Tariq Ramadan Quotes

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
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• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
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• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
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• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
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• On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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• I am a big music nerd.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
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• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
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• I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.

  

  Kai Bird
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• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

  

  Nan Hayworth
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• If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

  

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• You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

  

  John Travolta
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
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• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

  

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