Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?
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A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
