"I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Ayad Akhtar

#Religious Quotes #Thinking Quotes #America Quotes

“Variety is the soul of pleasure.”

Source : The Rover pt. 2, act 1 (1681) See Cowper 7
“Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments”

Source : Manly Palmer Hall (1926). “The All-seeing Eye”
“Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.”
“It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.”

Source : "The Story of a Strong Woman in a Patriarchal Country: Nell Freudenberger's The Newlyweds". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. June 22, 2012.
“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.”
“This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.”
“When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“I'm going to make decisions that I think are best for me and my family. So, when I make these decisions, of course I'm going to ask people for advice, but at the end of the day, Brandon Jennings makes the decisions. And I feel like the decisions that I've made so far have been successful.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com

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