"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."
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"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are."
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"Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again."
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"I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come."
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"Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go."
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"If you want to be free be free"
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"I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism."
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"Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile."
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"To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are."
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"Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony."
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"Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back."
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"Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything."
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"And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still."
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"The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace."
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"Say what you think; think what you mean."
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"Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the only answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me."
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"This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general."
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"I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful."
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"'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."
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"In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind."
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