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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Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.
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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry.
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It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
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Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.
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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.
