Fawzia Koofi Quotes

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

Fawzia Koofi

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• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Well
  • Editor

• Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.

  

  Randy West
  • Money
  • Day
  • Serious

• You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Political
  • You
  • Know

• I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • She
  • Wish
  • Name

• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Process
  • Form

• I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but it drilled into my head that my voice is important.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Important
  • Stop
  • Mentor

• Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up

• The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Women
  • Fashion

• I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

  

  Levon Helm

• How can you not be affected by disappointments relating to work you love so much?

  

  Amanda Crew
  • Work

• I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

  

  Omar Benson Miller
  • Life
  • Father

• I'm an angry guy.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Guy
  • Angry

• It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Work
  • Art

• I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Trying

• Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

  

  Mike Lee
  • Government
  • Spending
  • Accustomed

• Then he launched into a classic statement of his political philosophy. I appreciate all you say about what Bryanism means, and I also … am as strongly opposed to populism in every stage as the greatest representative of corrupt wealth, but … these representatives … have themselves been responsible for a portion of the conditions against which Bryanism is in ignorant, and sometimes wicked revolt. I do not believe it is wise or safe for us as a party to take refuge in mere negation and to say that there are no evils to be corrected. It seems to me that our attitude should be one of correcting the evils and thereby showing, that, whereas the populists, socialists and others really do not correct the evils at all … the Republicans hold the just balance and set our faces as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Attitude
  • Philosophy
  • Appreciate

• Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

  

  Liz Vassey
  • Wonder
  • Picture
  • Nasty

• I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

  

  Fawzia Koofi
  • Fighting
  • Daughters
  • Respected