Ian Buruma Quotes

The solution to the Muslim problem is a Muslim Voltaire, a Muslim Nietzsche

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• Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Wine
  • Him

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Electricity
  • Keep Going

• There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • World
  • Things
  • Dangerous

• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Success
  • Revenge
  • Success Is

• I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • World
  • Future

• When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Music
  • Myself

• I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Men
  • Like
  • Hill

• It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Great
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Music
  • Alone

• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Necessary

• We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Best
  • Feels

• I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Growing
  • City
  • Government

• I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Age
  • Wanted
  • Nine

• I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Me
  • Sense

• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

  

  Barry Mann
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Lyrics

• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Down

• Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

  

  William Blake
  • Kill
  • Butterfly
  • Judgement

• I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • She
  • Lost
  • Problem

• The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation.

  

  Charles Hugh Smith
  • Reality
  • Problem
  • Balance

• Now we have not just our state, but other states all looking to Florida as what will hopefully be a model for how to regulate these office clinic surgery clinic centers in a way that is uniform and that is a very high standard.

  

  Anitere Flores
  • Model
  • State
  • Standard

• The solution to the Muslim problem is a Muslim Voltaire, a Muslim Nietzsche

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Muslim