Ishmael Beah Quotes

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

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• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Government
  • Years
  • Canada

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Family
  • Me
  • Nobody

• Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • People
  • Idea
  • Working

• To me, style is consistency.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Me
  • Style
  • Consistency

• Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • God

• Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Blue
  • Mercy

• Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.

  

  Agatha Christie

• I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Life

• My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…

  

  Libba Bray
  • Kids
  • Dad

• What is Bresson's genre? He doesn't have one. Bresson is Bresson. He is a genre in himself. Antonioni, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Dovzhenko, Vigo, Mizoguchi, Bunuel - each is identified with himself. The very concept of genre is as cold as the tomb. And is Chaplin - comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Comedy
  • Simple
  • Unique

• If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Single
  • Literature

• Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Game
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Life
  • Ambition

• The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Town
  • Bookstore

• Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Music
  • Love
  • Jesus

• I fear no man. Sometimes I think I do not even fear God.

  

  Zitkala-Sa
  • God
  • Man
  • Fear

• What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Country
  • War

• I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

  

  Ishmael Beah
  • God
  • Believe
  • Tradition