Tariq Ali Quotes

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

Tariq Ali

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I believe in being positive.

Joe Greene

PositiveBelieveI BelieveBeing

It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter.

Andy Daly

LoveSpaceDoingYouFurniture

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

Melvin Van Peebles

YouKnowMoviesNeverWestRole

Science fiction fans are great, but they just aren't the same as groupies.

Robert Picardo

ScienceGreatScience FictionFans

I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.

Steve Bannon

OpportunityWorldNegativePlanWall

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

Sri Aurobindo

SpiritualRaceGreatestGospelWorks

I had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs.

St. Lucia

IdeasWritingLongEmbraceMess

One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high.

Simon Conway Morris

ConfidenceSayHumanHighPretty

Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.

Travis Scott

MyselfCrazySometimesSleepingGone

All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

VisionYouWillFaithfulUpSeen

I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.

Don Lemon

LoveCityPlaceEarthNewUp

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Democritus

WindsModerationBringGreatest

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