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

• 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

• We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Stop
  • Training
  • Boy

• I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Good

• I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.

  

  Cilla Black
  • People
  • Business
  • Girl

• The noble lord in this case, as in so many others, first destroys his opponent, and then destroys his own position afterwards. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Enemy
  • Prince

• I believe in freedom of speech, and at the same time I think that sometimes it can be worth it to not say something. In my opinion there is a sort of limit to that freedom, but where that limit exactly lies is open for discussion. As soon as there is no longer any discussion possible, than it has reached its limits and therefore freedom of speech will no longer exist.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Speech

• 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