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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.