Suheir Hammad Quotes

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

Suheir Hammad

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • United States
  • Back
  • Meet

• I love my wife, I love my kids.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Yourself

• You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Father
  • Know

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Film
  • See

• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Thanks
  • Wolf

• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Words
  • Party
  • Government

• The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Important
  • Song
  • Me

• I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Done
  • Think
  • Cleaning

• Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Party
  • Years
  • Trump

• I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Modern physics... reduces matter to a set of events which proceed outward from a centre. If there is something further in the centre itself, we cannot know about it, and it is irrelevant to physics.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • May
  • Silence
  • Mountain

• There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

  

  Chad Smith Chickenfoot
  • People
  • Live

• I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Life

• Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

  

  Suheir Hammad
  • Life
  • Right
  • Collateral