Asma Jahangir Quotes
I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.
Asma Jahangir
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
Ioan Gruffudd
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
Tana French
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
Ada Yonath
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
Lane Evans
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
Harland Williams
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
Rand Paul
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
Harlan Coben
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
Laura Lang
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
Oriana Fallaci
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Walter Scott
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Monetary conditions exert an enormous influence on stock prices. Indeed, the monetary climate - primarily the trend in interest rates and Federal Reserve policy - is the dominant factor in determining the stock market's major direction.
Martin Zweig
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'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
The Weeknd
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I had a bunch of paintings around at my house, and someone said to me, 'Why don't you just put them on Instagram? Why don't you show people these?' And I didn't want to - it was just something else I would have to do. But eventually, I was like, 'What's the harm?' And the response was so insane!
Alison Mosshart
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.
Asma Jahangir
