Ashraf Barhom Quotes
When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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A will finds a way.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.
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We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
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My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
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When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.
