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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I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.
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The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
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Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.
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The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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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.
