"All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you"

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Source : "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Documentary Wins Oscar". tribune.com.pk. February 27, 2012.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#Dream Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?”

Source : Bulleh Shah, “Repeating The Name Of The Beloved”
“The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.”
“When I hear him sing and see what he can do, though, it's always a reminder of why I look up to Usher as my mentor and why I will always be an Usher fan to my core. But I'm lucky to say that he's an even better friend to me than he's a mentor. He's truly the real deal.”
“Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.”
“I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.”
“Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.”
“The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.”
“I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.”

Source : Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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