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Ruzwana Bashir

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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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KATHERINE VUCICEVIC
The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life.
ANUJ SOMANY
Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
NEHA KOTHARI
If you look at a stream or river and close your eyes it will be amazing the flow of ideas that will ...
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She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO
We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.
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Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
JAMES PONIEWOZIK
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You can never be too rich or too thin.
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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
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It feels good to extend my contract here. From the coaches to the front office, they are the coolest...
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I'm happy for Stokes, he's my boy, that's cool for him. That's the way the game goes.
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He was born here, ... He didn't do anything other than British culture.
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He was a very kind and caring person, he was respected by everybody and he respected everybody.
BASHIR AHMED
It wasn't him; it must have been some forces behind
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had everything to live for.
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We were respected by the community. How is the community going to treat us now?
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We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,
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That's the end of his life, by the look of it,
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What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out.
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He has been remanded into judicial custody until August 27,
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During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civi...
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The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He de...
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He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why...
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I get enough sleep in our new house.
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One night in 2003, grandmother heard something knocking things. When she lit the lamp, she saw a sna...
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I slept with my knees under my chin.
BASHIR BUTANAZIBA
A friend should be like who can understand you that what you wants from him or her because some frie...
HAJRA BASHIR
Forgive others so that God can show his mercy on you and forgive you
HAJRA BASHIR
We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.
MARTIN BASHIR
It's important to show our victories but also our defeat of the mean-spirited anti-gay legislation b...
SAMIYA BASHIR
My client is innocent and has not committed any offence nor has any role in the kidnapping of Pearl.
RAI BASHIR
There is no shortcut to success in life.
USAMA BASHIR
This is an exciting time in our growing civil rights movement for marriage equality. The Marriage Eq...
SAMIYA BASHIR
You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
MARTIN BASHIR
This beating is all part of the same war on Islam that the West is carrying out these days. The (Pro...
GAMAL BASHIR
When I first came here they told me I have a chance to fight for the spot. But I can't do anything b...
IDREES BASHIR
It's top notch all around the board, corners, strong safety and free safety,
IDREES BASHIR
I'm upset. I saw it as a window to go in and show my ability.
IDREES BASHIR
When I signed here they told me I would have a chance to fight for the spot,
IDREES BASHIR
But I think any of our guys can step in and play well.
IDREES BASHIR
And you are, every day, relentlessly terminating that life. And you are happy with that?
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a very experienced investigative journalist. That's who he is. He's a fantastically talented reporte...
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Living with Michael Jackson.
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[The self-proclaimed] King of Pop ... proves Bashir grossly misled his audience.
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had misrepresented to Mr. Jackson what they were going to accomplish in this production.
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[Bain said Jackson] felt that there was some betrayal there ... Living With Michael Jackson.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in ...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Mus...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Musl...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for t...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a f...
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will b...
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Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defea...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade ou...
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, ...
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Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the ...
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticat...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced wi...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respec...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. ...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish the...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in ...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect an...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
I suggest the government bring themselves closer to God by implementing his rules and laws because t...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
I very much disagree with the bombings, whatever the reasons, in a peaceful place including Bali, wh...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
I really disapprove of bombings in non-conflict areas for whatever reason, including in Bali, becaus...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
The only model to follow is pure Islam.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
ABU BAKAR BASHIR
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Bulan kalah indah dengan senyumannya,
Air kalah jern...
SITI KHADIJAH BASHIR 2010