Deeyah Khan Quotes

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

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• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • God
  • Day
  • Thankful

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

  

  Gail Parent
  • She
  • Mother
  • Feel

• There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Proud

• My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Funny

• Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Why
  • Together

• I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Black
  • White

• Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Intelligent

• My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Business
  • Hiv
  • Bearing

• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Romantic

• The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Passion

• 'You do your best, we do the rest.' That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Up
  • God
  • Rest

• I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Work
  • Player

• Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Life

• My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Dream
  • Truck
  • Cowboy

• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz
  • Up
  • God
  • Courage

• If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

  

  Ali Bongo Ondimba
  • Science
  • Agreements
  • Climate Policy

• In all the human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Age
  • Die

• A rental car in Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of touring, we had a week off. I have a problem with flying, so instead of going home, my wife came to me and we rented a car and drove around. Just pulled off on some dirt roads...

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Car

• For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

  

  James Thomson
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Night

• Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

  

  Deeyah Khan