#ky

even if Noam Chomsky were right about everything, the Islamic doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women and homosexuals, etc. would still present huge problems for the emergence of a global civil society (and these are problems quite unlike those presented by similar tenets in other faiths, for reasons that I have explained at length elsewhere and touch on only briefly here). And any way in which I might be biased or blinded by “the religion of the state,” or any other form of cultural indoctrination, has absolutely no relevance to the plight of Shiites who have their mosques, weddings, and funerals bombed by Sunni extremists, or to victims of rape who are beaten, imprisoned, or even killed as “adulteresses” throughout the Muslim world. I hope it goes without saying that the Afghan girls who even now are risking their lives by merely learning to read would not be best compensated for their struggles by being handed copies of Chomsky’s books enumerating the sins of the West ↗

— Sam Harris

#noam-chomsky #faith

Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#beings #clearly #commonality #divide #enough

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive. ↗

— John Elway

#bowls #i #know #last #last year

I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and different sorts of films and stuff. Some people have only one photo, and I'm really glad that I have all of that. ↗

— Bindi Irwin

#different #films #get #glad #i

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#brilliant #ever #favourite #history #i

I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant! ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#being #brilliant #classical #coming #i

I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#collaborate #dream #feel #how #i

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#created #danced #electronic #frankie #funky

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#backyard #basketball #bikes #bought #christmas

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky. ↗

— Curtis Jones

#funky #got #i #james #james brown