Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler -
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
Idina Menzel -
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson -
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
Vanilla Ice
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet -
This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
Adam Hasner -
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
Samantha Power -
It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
Sam Donaldson -
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius -
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
Hans Hofmann -
This will end in tears.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
Cy Twombly -
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
Charlie Chaplin -
I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
David Herbert Donald
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Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
Charles E. Wilson -
I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.
Antonio Banderas -
We're going to get into partisan bickering because more than half of Republicans agreed with the statement that said Obama is trying to impose Islamic law on America. I mean that is a very radical thing to believe. And it's more than half of Republicans. Not tea baggers. Not radicals. The mainstream Republican people.
Bill Maher -
Girl I don't wanna share you
Mac Miller -
I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
Oscar Wilde -
If I don't have the freedom to disbelieve, I cannot believe.
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im