Laila Lalami Quotes

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

Laila Lalami

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• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
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• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
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  • Knowledge
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• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Fortune
  • Quit

• I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • She
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• In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Purpose

• You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Tree

• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Anything
  • States
  • Collective

• When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Power
  • Community
  • Myself

• I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Morning
  • Bedroom
  • Roll

• As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Future
  • Myself

• She was a genius, my mother.

  

  Sally Kirkland
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• Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Business
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• My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

  

  Oscar Levant
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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fixangelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • Night
  • Angry
  • Connection

• Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a gap. When you stub your toe on the foot of the bed, that was a gap in knowledge. And the pain is a lot of information really quick. That's what pain is.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Knowledge
  • Pain

• I want to mix, match, take something off, move the ball around.

  

  Matt Cain

• I'm a son of immigrants. I'm not going to reduce my commitment to immigration. But can I empathize with the fact that if your town was 95 percent all white and now it's down to 60, that that can scare you? Can I empathize with that? Yeah.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Son
  • Commitment
  • Immigration

• We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

  

  David Axelrod
  • People
  • Up
  • Immigration

• You know, I'm one of millions of undocumented people in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. And in many ways, coming out, it was my way of - at the end of the day, I think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system. And because of that, I had to tell the truth about myself.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• Many agnostics (including myself) are quite as doubtful of the body as they are of the soul, but this is a long story taking one into difficult metaphysics. Mind and matter alike, I should say, are only convenient symbol in discourse, not actually existing things.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Soul

• The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • Important
  • Future
  • Brain

• Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

  

  Laila Lalami
  • Immigration