Deeyah Khan Quotes
Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression.Deeyah Khan
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
Kate Bush -
By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
Irv Kupcinet -
Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes -
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
Zach Anner -
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
Dan Gilbert
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
V. S. Naipaul -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
Irvin D. Yalom -
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel -
I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
Harbhajan Singh
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
Gary Cole -
Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
Indra Devi -
Being a celebrity is a business.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya -
I don't have goals in life.
Olivier Martinez
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It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.
Khalid -
Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up comedy. It's a very competitive world, and it was a challenge to find my own voice, stick to my guns.
Anjelah Johnson -
I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
Olivia Wilde -
I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
Natalie Dormer -
I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
Baltasar Kormakur -
Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression.
Deeyah Khan