Taslima Nasrin Quotes

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

Taslima Nasrin

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Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

John C. Calhoun

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Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

Andrea Arnold

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

John Zorn

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There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work.

Steve Jurvetson

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There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.

Tommy Shaw

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Roland Barthes

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I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Cindy Sheehan

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We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could be a poor choice or a good choice or anywhere in between. But we make that decision in the moment, and we live with the consequences.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

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I remember going out to raise my Series A and ending up with multiple term sheets when I had gone to Silicon Valley probably four times at that point and coming back with nothing.

Payal Kadakia

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Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

Scott Aukerman

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At 58, I knew I had to get a divorce. At that age, it's an almost impossible thing to go through. I had been married 33 years. I had been married for 33 years. I didn't know anything else.

Tina Knowles

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