Beji Caid Essebsi Quotes
I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.
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Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives.
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I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
