Asma Jahangir Quotes
I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
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I'm a nail biter and have been my whole life.
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
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Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.
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I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?
