Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

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• I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Girl
  • Bike
  • Qualities

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Cooking
  • Sauce
  • Tricky

• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Pay

• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Men
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Potential
  • Truth Is

• The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Bird

• It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Christian
  • Difficult
  • Islamic

• I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Think
  • Call
  • Feminists

• I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • City
  • Architecture

• As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Church
  • Years
  • Child

• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Winter

• I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Creating

• I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Years
  • Right
  • Leg

• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Never

• No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Racism
  • Soccer
  • Nationalism

• Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Girl
  • Down
  • Catholic

• It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Story
  • Media

• Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

  

  Enid Lyons
  • Nature
  • Environment
  • Politics

• Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Understand
  • Said
  • Sought