Hanan Ashrawi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
-
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
-
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
-
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
-
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
-
I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
-
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
-
In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
-
'You're such a liar.''But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?' She flashed her best smile at her friend.'I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,' her friend answered. 'Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.'
-
'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
-
Politics is a game of compromise.
-
It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
-
All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves.
-
It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
-
I never wanted to be a pop star.
-
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
-
With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.
-
Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.
-
I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it.
-
The thing about the intuition is that there's always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It's always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it.
-
I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
-
The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.
-
The occupation is a source of violence that has to stop.
