Franjo Tudjman Quotes

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

Franjo Tudjman

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• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Belief
  • Dies

• I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Early

• I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Children
  • Respect

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Child
  • Interest
  • Labor

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Exist

• This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Me
  • Homeland
  • Kick

• Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Problem
  • Vision
  • Enough

• It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Selfish

• I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Nature
  • See
  • Back

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Like
  • Thought

• It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

• Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Success
  • Growing
  • Yourself

• When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • May
  • Soul

• Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Story
  • Very
  • Tell

• And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Wind

• People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Means
  • Racial

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• I thought I was a sexy symbol!

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Thought
  • Sexy
  • Symbol

• Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be

  

  Ali Meshkini
  • Peace
  • President
  • Liars

• The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

  

  Franjo Tudjman
  • Islamic