Monica Ali Quotes
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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I'm only a human being.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
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There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.
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I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.
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Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.
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The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.
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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
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One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.
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It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
