Asma Jahangir Quotes
A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.
