Malala Yousafzai Quotes

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

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• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Together
  • You
  • Star

• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

  

  Wale
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • May
  • Think
  • Democracy

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kind

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Grandmother
  • Boxing

• Who hath not proved how feebly words essayTo fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sightFaints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confessThe might, the majesty of loveliness?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Words

• I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Women
  • Respect

• If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country. The roads they have, in the rainy season, become just mud. So, if you’re somebody that has just one leg, or blind with no arms and you have children and you’re trying to work, and earn some money, and take care of your home, it’s hard enough to be a parent and do all of that normally.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Work
  • Country
  • Children

• When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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