"If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam."

-- Abdurrahman Wahid

#People Quotes #Islam Quotes #Territory Quotes

“China's stock market is not very big. And yet when stock market has a bad day in China, it seems, Europe has a bad day and then we have a bad day.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.”

Source : Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”
“I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.”

Source : "You Can’t Kill Them: Bill Condon on Breaking Dawn Part 2" by Fred Topel, www.mandatory.com. November 13, 2012.
“Music is supposed to be an escape, It's supposed to be somewhere you can go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you wanna be.”
“Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.”

Source : The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 11, 2011.
“I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.”
“Romney raised $10 million. Thatâ€™s a dollar for every position heâ€™s had on healthcare.”
“Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.”

Source : "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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