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“I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is a blasphemous book. I did not consider the book as being a great read, but as an intellectual I read, I assess, and I respond. I make a difference between true freedom of expression to which we owe a response and provocation, which we ignore.”

Thinking Book Differences Expression Intellectual Distance Response Critical Making A Difference Verses Freedom Of Expression Satanic True Freedom Provocation Rushdie Satanic Verses

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.”

Way Vision Economic Expression Models Critical Minorities Treatment Freedom Of Expression Turkish

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me. There are a wide variety of religious expressions in this country. I think they all must be treated with respect and none of them must be given priority in the public arena.”

Thinking Country Today Christian Given Religious Expression Catholic Atheist Jew Wide Priorities Treated Like Me Buddhist Variety Arena Evangelical Roman Catholic Society Today

Author:John Shelby Spong

“The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.”

Way Action Expression Intuition Command

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.”

Ifs Years Made Said Hard Shows Speak Simple Morning Study Groups Expression Quiet Members Years Ago Albums Interviews Japan Embarrassing Debut

Author:Seungri

“That's one of my little expressions. I never really studied acting so I kind of kiddingly talk about "building your circle" and "mooding up," because I really didn't learn any technique.”

Kind Littles Acting Building Expression Technique Circles

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Kurt Vonnegut wasn't a chatty guy, but when he spoke, it was always clear and very funny, in the way that he wrote, in a very specific kind of combination of word groupings and expressions that lived somewhere else.”

Way Kind Guy Clear Expression Combination Spokes Somewhere Else

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.”

Expression British Chips Darling Couture

Author:Jojo Moyes

“I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and I can perform it that night and have an instant reciprocal exchange - an emotional, impactful exchange - and it's a less technical medium. It's a pure expression from my soul to other souls.”

Writing I Can Soul Night Song Rooms Emotional Expression Right Now Pure Mediums My Soul Instant Bus Living Room Reciprocal

Author:Juliette Lewis

“If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form of self-expression, and that's certainly how I approach my music.”

Ifs Thinking Long Self Form Artist Term Expression Approach Decades Long Term Self Expression

Author:DJ Shadow

“Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes you laugh and feel light as a feather. With someone like him, you're getting a real picture of a person, a real expression.”

Feels Writing Persons Real Soul Light Song Turns Laughing Tears Expression Your Soul Feathers Make You Laugh

Author:Scott Avett

“I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.”

Thinking Art Expression Communication Type Dance Music

Author:Rachele Brooke Smith

“My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Looks Persons Matter Eye Able Father Expression Perception Mirrors No Matter What Feel Good About Yourself Good Person

Author:Stephanie McMahon

“I think the idea of embodying the physical presence of a character is the same on stage and screen. There are just different levels of expression to keep in mind for each platform.”

Thinking Mind Ideas Different Character Levels Stage Expression Screens Platforms Different Levels

Author:Amanda Schull

“I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.”

People Knows Feels Has Beens Book Hard Facts Practice Heard Havens Expression Contempt Investigation Lectures Alcoholics Alcoholics Anonymous

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.”

Thinking Writing Feelings My Own Expression Intense Poetry Is Expression Of Feeling

Author:Erica Jong

“Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.”

Knows Body Jobs Spiritual Divine Expression Intention True Nature Spiritual Beings Individuation

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“See the other person's potential for kindness and bolster your own expression of kindness. If you see them in a negative way, the power of your perception will only help to keep them that way as you polarize yourself from them, assuming a superior role, seeing yourself as the good guy and them as the bad guy.”

Ifs Way Persons Helping Guy Roles Kindness Seeing Expression Perception Negative Assuming Superiors Bad Guys Good Guy Seeing Yourself

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.”

Way Kind May Ends Moments Stage Expression Ease Willingness Editors Ecstasy

Author:Alex Ebert

“The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.”

Men Made Age Religious Expression Claims Mortals Skepticism Distrust Religious Faith Hallmark Great Religious

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian.”

Ifs Years Might Kids School Felt Hours Expression Ten Individuality Clubs Performers Elites Invited Orchestra Belts Symphony Spontaneity Violin Really Weird Symphony Orchestras Vip

Author:Bjork

“Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.”

Humans Universe Consciousness Expression Universal Human Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.”

Knows Form Universe Consciousness Expression Temporary

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.”

Thinking Passion Expression Balance Essentials

Author:Jane Fonda

“I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.”

Thinking Passion Sound Expression

Author:Jane Fonda

“I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.”

People Needs Mean Self Young Passion Understanding Expression Right Now Tired Driven Abandon Self Expression

Author:Debbie Allen

“I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you're greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, "Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn't misinterpreting."”

“There is no doubt where the founding fathers stood on this issue. They believed that people of faith should be permitted to express themselves in public. They believed that this country was big enough and free enough to allow expression of on enormous variety of views and beliefs.”

People Should Country Enough Bigs Father Belief Views Issues Doubt Expression Enormous Variety No Doubt Founding

Author:John Cornyn

“[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship in a particular matter and remain neutral on what those views and beliefs were.”

People Long Matter Government Father Belief Force Religious Views Particular Expression Worship Founding Freedom Of Expression Religious Views

Author:John Cornyn

“Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.”

Believe Seems America Sex Religious Wonder Violence Crime Expression Protect Limits Court Pornography Depiction

Author:John Cornyn

“People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.”

People Mother Expression Clean Originality Of Context

Author:Joe Biden

“Donald Trump is appealing to, that whole expression, everybody who asked me, why is Trump able to win in those 16 people? There's a whole expression. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I'm not very good at prognosticating but I would not be surprised if he's the nominee.”

People Ifs Men Whole Able Winning Land Expression Trump Kings Blind Very Good

Author:Joe Biden

“People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.”

People Thinking Mean Use Might Age Certain Asks Expression Degrees Frightened Tibet

Author:Robert Thurman

“I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.”

World I Can Real Play Use Form Havens Expression Real World

Author:Adrian Grenier

“Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo is so different than the one I see in a mirror - not to mention the "self" that I see in my mind's eye? Pondering it can pretty easily cast me into a vortex of self-doubt, wondering how the me that people experience - my voice, my personality, my creative expression - is regarded without my knowledge.”

People Mind Different Self Eye Voice Wonder Vision Creative Doubt Seeing Expression Personality Mirrors Photograph Casts Pondering Self-doubt Vortex Creative Expression

Author:Keith Murray

“I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace their uniques expressions as individuals and freethinkers. They are lucky enough to grow up in a time where the individual is celebrated - it is their duty to find their voices so that they can be heard. It is time to practice compassionate communication.”

Enough Body Individual Grows Sports Voice Practice Growing Up Heard Youth Expression Duty Communication Exercise Lucky Embrace Compassionate Freethinker

Author:Leilani Bishop

“I'm most inspired by people who are doing what they love in a big, loud way. And big and loud doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes these people can appear as a quiet storm, but in their full expression everyone feels the impact.”

People Way Feels Sometimes Bigs Expression Quiet Impact Inspired Storm Loud

Author:Karla Cheatham Mosley

“The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.”

Made Form Silence Steps Example Color Expression Concepts Letters Accomplished

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.”

Self Love Is Accepting Expression Allowing Truest

Author:Grace Gealey

“The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.”

Self Reality Moving Law Universe Next Force Tree Divine Expression Baby Aspect Invisible Compensation Bud Oaks Correcting Embryos Acorns Oak Tree

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.”

Romance Energy Creative Inspire Expression Partners Vitality Enthusiastic Creative Expression

Author:John Friend

“I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.”

People Thinking Creative Expression Diversity Exciting Abundance Delightful Signals Elbows Exuberance Creative Expression

Author:William McDonough

“I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.”

Creative Expression Oneself Museums Creative Expression Really Inspiring

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.”

Giving Different Universe Energy Expression Flow Receiving Giving And Receiving Different Expressions

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.”

Ability Seeing Expression Artistic Our Future Artistic Expression

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.”

Way Expression Strive Dialogue

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.”

Children Play Wonder Laughing Expression Offers Openness Smallest Finest Flexibility

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct it and act in it, she was the creative force behind everything, from the jokes down to the expressions.”

Writing Force Behinds Creative Expression Directors Jokes Direct Cents Waitress

Author:Keri Russell

“Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.”

Play Character Seems Particular Expression Details Instance Gestures Holmes Cerebral Quirks

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.”

Song My Own Written Expression Sake Sanity

Author:Camila Cabello

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