Asma Jahangir Quotes
One example that has hurt me is that of Aung San Suu Kyi. I admire her a lot, but her unwillingness to protect the Rohingiya Muslims shows how intolerance has seeped into politics and the level at which it has seeped. It immobilises politicians.Asma Jahangir
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin -
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Octavio Paz -
It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
Young Buck -
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
Eddi Reader -
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
Zara Larsson -
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
Naomi Watts -
Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
T-Pain -
My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Kate Winslet -
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
Jack Nicklaus
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
Sabine Lisicki -
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Marc Andreesen -
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
Rainn Wilson -
Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
Fidel Castro -
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
Daniel Berrigan
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As we grow, our music grows, and it's very natural and organic, and it's nothing that's forced, which is really, really important to us because we don't want to just do something drastic just to do it.
Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony -
I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.
Adriana Trigiani -
We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.
Louise Slaughter -
Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.
Seth Godin -
Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
Laura Lang -
One example that has hurt me is that of Aung San Suu Kyi. I admire her a lot, but her unwillingness to protect the Rohingiya Muslims shows how intolerance has seeped into politics and the level at which it has seeped. It immobilises politicians.
Asma Jahangir