Aga Khan IV Quotes
We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
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A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
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When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
