- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
- Finish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
- Voice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
- Blue-Eyed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020