Tariq Ramadan Quotes
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Being evil is easy.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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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.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
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The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.
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Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.
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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
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Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.
