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Tariq Ali Quotes

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

Tariq Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: pakistani
Birth: October 21, 1943

Topics

Father War College Army Place Know

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

Meg Rosoff

Morning Late Up Fields Horses Every

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

Robert Kiyosaki

Business Small Rich Employees Build

Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.

Robin Morgan

Women Job Help Born More Fragile

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

Michel Hazanavicius

Reality Make Reproduce Films

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.

Michelle Tea

Myself Writing Book Strangers Want

I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past.

Michael Phelps

Past I Am Fast In The Past Recover

Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue.

Mitch McConnell

People American Trying Back Go Know

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

Julia Cameron

Bird Writing House Windows New Will

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

Jason Mantzoukas

Together People Beard You Giant

I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

Johnny Marr

Great Time People Green Writing

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

Douglas Wilson

People Know Little Break Would Did

I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.

Apolo Ohno

Time Me Crazy Energy Trouble Never