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!
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
-
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.
-
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
-
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.
-
There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
-
My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
-
Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
-
People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
-
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.
-
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
-
I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
-
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?
-
Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
-
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.
-
I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
-
Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
-
Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.
-
I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.
-
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
-
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
-
Living with faith and courage is something that life requires of each of us. Never, absolutely never, give up! Never give in no matter what! Fight it through! And I promise you something with all of my heart-God will help you.
-
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!
