Asma Jahangir Quotes
Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
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It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.
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We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?
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We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.
