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.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Understand
  • Slaves
  • Whatever

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Christian
  • Going

• I'm only a human being.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Age
  • Space
  • Red

• 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.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Nails

• 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.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Come

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Looks
  • Unions
  • Middle East

• 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.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Giving
  • Ugly

• 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.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Hero

• It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

  

  Euripides
  • Said
  • Gods
  • Gifts

• Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

  

  Epictetus
  • Concern
  • Regard
  • Says

• A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Mean
  • inspirational

• The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Hero
  • Praise

• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • True
  • Me
  • Mom

• If I like a thing, then I know that millions will like it. My mind and my taste are so common that I’m the best editor.

  

  S. S. McClure
  • Mind
  • Common
  • Taste

• I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Taste
  • Eclectic
  • Nina