Asma Jahangir Quotes
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
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When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.
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I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.
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When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
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Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.
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This is my body, and I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
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'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'
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I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister....It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.
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Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.
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Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.
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You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.
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I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.
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I don't watch a lot of TV. I just don't have a whole lot of time, and my life is so disorganized, I don't have any kind of consistent schedule. Usually, I pop in a DVD or flip around when I get home at 4 in the morning and try to fall asleep.
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I also don't think all of the revenue will come from digital subscriptions. We have in the New York Times a mix of revenue sources and it will continue to be a mix for quite a while. What makes me more nervous is that we built this newsroom on a really high profit margin that has eroded significantly over the last years. I'm nervous that we won't continue to have the profit margins that allow us to have a big, robust newsroom.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.
