Asma Jahangir Quotes
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
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For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
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I'm always looking for signs.
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I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.
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In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever - Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.
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And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.
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I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment.
