Asma Jahangir Quotes
I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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Being evil is easy.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.
