Nafis Sadik Quotes
“We must be courageous in speaking out on the issues that concern us:
We must not bend under the weight of spurious arguments invoking culture or traditional values.
No value worth the name supports the oppression and enslavement of women.
The function of culture and tradition is to provide a framework for human well-being.
If they are used against us, we will reject them, and move on. We will not allow ourselves to be silenced.”
Nafis Sadik
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
Carl Hiaasen
I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
Ian Jackson
As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.
Samuel Gompers
When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
Edvard Munch
Our top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.
Victor Davis Hanson
At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
Andre Boucourechliev
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?
Alan Alda
I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.
Patrice O'Neal
Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
Terence McKenna
I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
Vidya Balan
I held your hand but you let it go. I knew your heart had found a home. And now I know it’s over.
Dean Lewis
“We must be courageous in speaking out on the issues that concern us:
We must not bend under the weight of spurious arguments invoking culture or traditional values.
No value worth the name supports the oppression and enslavement of women.
The function of culture and tradition is to provide a framework for human well-being.
If they are used against us, we will reject them, and move on. We will not allow ourselves to be silenced.”
Nafis Sadik
