Amir Taheri Quotes

It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

Amir Taheri

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• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Mean
  • Restaurant
  • Belong

• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Motivated

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Children
  • Political
  • Small

• 'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.

  

  Becky G
  • Age
  • Fans
  • Ready

• I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Greatness
  • Chase

• I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Thought
  • Shoes

• I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Character
  • Play
  • Development

• When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Home
  • Just
  • Go

• It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Free
  • Constitution

• Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Listening

• He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Death
  • Comedy

• I'm a big Gorillaz fan.

  

  Kali Uchis

• When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

  

  Coleman Randolph Hawkins
  • Trying

• Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

  

  Leverett Saltonstall
  • Up
  • Long
  • Home

• I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Believe
  • Different
  • True

• Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Friend

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • Fall
  • Dark
  • Sunshine

• At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

  

  Amir Taheri
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Terrorist