Asma Jahangir Quotes
People send their kids to law school to uphold the rule of law - not to fight in the streets for justice and not to be beaten up.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
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Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating.
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You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.
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People send their kids to law school to uphold the rule of law - not to fight in the streets for justice and not to be beaten up.
