Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
-
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
-
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
-
Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
-
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
-
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
-
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
-
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
-
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
-
I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
-
You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
-
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
-
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
-
Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
-
Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
-
With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.
-
Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.
-
Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.
-
Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!
-
The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
-
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
-
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
