In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets.
I'm getting angry at liberals.
Can accidentally eating halal food make you Muslim? Yes, the same way drinking a cosmo can make you gay.
If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist.
You have a firm grasp of the obvious.
I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.
Give a man a suicide bomb, he blows up once. Teach a man to suicide bomb, he also blows up once.
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[. . . ]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond. "