Abdolkarim Soroush Quotes
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I have a very short attention span.
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In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
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The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
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If I knew a foreigner from anywhere in his virtue who would love God and would be interested in the good more than my own brother, he would be dearer to me than my brother. And hence I prefer good English priests over timid Czech priests and good German over an evil brother.
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My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
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For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
