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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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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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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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
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My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.
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Artists who are the defenders of true life become phonies. That’s the perfidious thing about this world. Society turns anyone with a bit of life inside them into a medical case.
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The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)
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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.
