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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • Writing
  • Wife

• I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Fool
  • Liar

• If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Work
  • Rest
  • Value

• Always listen to your inner voice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Always
  • Voice
  • Listen

• I’m not ashamed of what I am - of how I pass through this life. What I am has given me the strength to do it. At my lowest ebb I have never contemplated suicide. I value what is here too much. I have a contribution to make. I am not just take up space in this life. I can add something to the lives I touch. I don’t like everything I know about myself, and I’ll never be satisfied, but nobody’s perfect. I’m not sure where the next years will take me - what they will hold - but I’m open to suggestions.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Space
  • Suicide
  • Touch

• The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• I don't even think of it as a strategy. It's me in my element; it's my forte. Me being with all the mandem on the ends, spitting to an old school grime riddim, is me in my element; that's when I feel I'm at my best.

  

  Stormzy
  • Feel
  • Strategy
  • Forte

• 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