Ayad Akhtar Quotes
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
Quotes to Explore
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
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My goal is to get quieter as I get older.
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I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.
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But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.
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Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
