Kamila Shamsie Quotes

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

Kamila Shamsie

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• Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Justice
  • Never
  • Given

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fan
  • Tim Burton
  • Tim

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Life
  • Family
  • Religious

• I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Parents
  • Problem
  • Same

• I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Want

• With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Faith

• The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Live
  • Records
  • Lifestyle

• I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today's music.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Character
  • Soul

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Everyone at the Hayholt had seemed obsessed with the empty ritual of power, something Miriamele had lived with for so long that it held no interest for her. It was like watching a confusing game played by bad-tempered children.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Long
  • Children
  • Power

• We are not hated for who we are. We are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. It is our policies.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Islamic

• The stakes are nothing less than the future of liberal democracy. We are engaged in a new war of ideas, not communism versus capitalism, but authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government.

  

  Adam Schiff
  • War
  • Future
  • Democracy

• Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Believe
  • Lifting

• I think when we build something we love and that others love, then we have done our job.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • Done
  • Job

• I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work, and all kinds of catastrophes happen, but I don't really get too much resistance. But when you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Miracle

• Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Life
  • Exercise
  • Celebrity

• What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

  

  Don Williams
  • Capable
  • Aspire

• You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Style
  • Animal
  • Ego

• There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Miracle