Riaad Moosa Quotes
Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!Riaad Moosa
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
Naomi Wolf -
In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
Gary Locke -
This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
Ziggy Marley -
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
Rachel Johnson -
The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
Ilan Stavans
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
Taylor Momsen -
Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
Usain Bolt -
People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
Carine Roitfeld -
Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
Maggie Cheung -
I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
Abbie Cornish -
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
Kara Swisher
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
Caitlyn Jenner -
We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
Victoria Pendleton -
I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
Karin Slaughter -
Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
Damien Rice -
Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
Nancy Grace -
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
S. I. Hayakawa -
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
Ian Mckellen -
There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up
Masashi Kishimoto -
Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!
Riaad Moosa