Hanif Kureishi Quotes
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.Hanif Kureishi
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
Ed Case -
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
Daley Thompson -
Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
Kai Bird -
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking -
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
Karin Slaughter -
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker -
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
Pastor Maldonado -
While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
Ma Jun -
I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
A. Scott Berg
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
Nacho Figueras -
I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
Parker Posey -
I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
Lake Bell -
My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
Daisy Ridley -
Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
Michael Peter Balzary Atoms for Peace -
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
Larry Bird -
I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
Parker Posey -
I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.
Kimora Lee Simmons -
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
Virginia Gildersleeve -
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
Hanif Kureishi