"They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to Islam, their joint 1,300-page doorstopper, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover alone. The fact that they remained practicing Muslims (albeit the liberal, wine-guzzling kind) put their message in high international demand."

-- Manil Suri

#New York Quotes #Wine Quotes #Islam Quotes

“Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.”
“The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.”
“I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.”
“Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioning of the self, either subtle or stark. Cure is the new, strange planet, pressing in. The doctor could not have known. And that made me, as it does every patient, only more alone.”

Source : Lauren Slater (2011). “Prozac Diary”, p.13, Random House
“No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.”
“We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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