The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.


Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because ...
TATYANA ALI
I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can ...
TATYANA ALI
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creatin...
TATYANA ALI
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch...
TATYANA ALI
I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to ch...
TARIQ ALI
Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membersh...
TARIQ ALI
Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutral...
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socia...
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become add...
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Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standar...
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The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes gra...
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the...
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I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant p...
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before a...
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity cou...
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the ...
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends...
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures...
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The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ...
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be jus...
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through ser...
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather j...
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of ...
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Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red ...
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world h...
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
IMTIAZ ALI
Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was ...
IMTIAZ ALI
I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
IMTIAZ ALI
I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, a...
IMTIAZ ALI
I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or writte...
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