Sonita Alizadeh Quotes

My parents tried to sell me. I was looking for a way to share my feelings, so I started to rap to talk about the painful experience of being a girl.

Sonita Alizadeh

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• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Going

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• My baby is the joy in my life.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Baby

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Successful

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • End
  • Very

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Start

• I have a very short attention span.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Attention
  • Very
  • Short

• The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Fun
  • Management
  • Workplace

• I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Present
  • Musicians
  • Limits

• My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Confidence
  • Momentum

• I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Animal

• Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Real
  • Experience
  • America

• When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Girl

• I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Up
  • Experience

• My parents tried to sell me. I was looking for a way to share my feelings, so I started to rap to talk about the painful experience of being a girl.

  

  Sonita Alizadeh
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Feelings