Asma Jahangir Quotes
Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Lehi was not a part of the Zionist movement, not a part of the Revisionist Party. It was sometimes something apart, and Lord Moyne was the highest British official in the Middle East... and because we fought against the British in this area, we took him for a target.
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Voting third-party in 2016 meant choosing The Green Party's Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, or Independent Candidate Evan McMullion.
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Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'
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I don't think Twitter is a platform to build your confidence on at all. Not at all.
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We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.
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Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
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I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who's a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederate family who's been taken over by the army when they come into the city in Virginia. He strikes up a romance with the youngest daughter in the house, which obviously causes some issues for the family.
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The balanced relation is the purest representation of universality, of the harmony and unity which are inherent characteristics of the mind.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'
