Dacia Maraini Quotes
Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.Dacia Maraini
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There is always pressure in football.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
Lars Mikkelsen -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen -
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
Jack Ma -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie -
People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
Idris Elba -
I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
D. J. Cotrona -
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
Yehuda Berg -
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
Daniel Clowes -
I have never had personal debt and never will.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
A. R. Rahman -
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
Gabrielle Union -
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
Warren Zevon -
I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
Jack Dee -
I want people to learn what democracy means.
Jack Ma -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg
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I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'
Alan Stern -
My friends know that if they need help, they can come to me.
Chris March -
In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.
James E. Faust -
Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.
Dacia Maraini