Asma Jahangir Quotes
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I was rubbish at school.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.
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I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.
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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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My father was jailed off and on for seven years.
