Hanan Ashrawi Quotes

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Hanan Ashrawi

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• Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Tragedy
  • Rejection

• I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better

• I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Life
  • Cynical

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Moving

• The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Yourself
  • Movies

• If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• You fall for who the chemistry is with.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • You
  • Fall
  • Chemistry

• Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • She
  • Together
  • Couple

• There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Idea
  • India
  • Invest

• Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Business

• You cannot rob me of free nature's grace,You cannot shut the windows of the skyThrough which Aurora shows her brightening face.

  

  Aurora
  • Nature
  • Free

• Coconut oil. I rub it through my hair, all over my skin, all over my body. Natural's the better way to go.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Hair

• I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Work
  • Women

• I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Energy
  • Independent

• The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

  

  Paul Theroux

• On the set you just have to listen very closely, listen to everyone around you, absorb everything and try to be what they want you to be with the little bitty line that you'd have to say. If it was a good line, it would be such fun to say it with vigor.

  

  Joan Leslie
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Littles

• The world knows me as the Raging Bull.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • World

• Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away from events for a bit, but I am finally at a comfortable place where I can honestly say, if you guys see me out on tour again it's because I am there to win, and I'm going to go 100%.

  

  Andy Irons
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Priority

• I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Band

• All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Passion

• We are still in the middle of the competition.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Competition