Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.Lakhdar Brahimi
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't know much about golf growing up.
Yogi Berra -
After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
Iman -
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
Naomi Klein -
When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill
-
I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
Randall Munroe -
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker -
We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
Ike Barinholtz -
I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
Kate Winslet -
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
Jack Benny -
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
Rachael Leigh Cook
-
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell -
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
Ed Gillespie -
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
Adam Driver -
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
Garth Risk Hallberg
-
Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.
Kaui Hart Hemmings -
What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.
Patti LuPone -
It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.
Conan O'Brien -
There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
Dakota Fanning -
Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.
Bill O'Reilly -
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
Lakhdar Brahimi