Aga Khan IV Quotes
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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You don't have to be blond or blue eyes or taller or smaller...just have to be who you need to be, and that's help people become who they are.
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The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.
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I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
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I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.
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I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
