Nuruddin Farah Quotes
To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.Nuruddin Farah
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
Olivia DeJonge -
I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
Callan McAuliffe -
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
Tanit Phoenix -
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor -
I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
Malaika Arora Khan
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
Bebe Rexha -
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
Barbara Kingsolver -
After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
Wayne Wonder -
Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy - you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism.
Ann Coulter -
I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
Britt Daniel
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'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.
Albert Brooks -
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Pearl Bailey -
You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.
Enrique Pena Nieto -
I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
Ken Follett -
It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.
Bill Gurley -
I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.
Lindsay Lohan
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The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
Dorothy Thompson -
The same biological clock ticks away in humans and fruit flies, which underscores the importance of circadian timing to life on this planet.
Michael Rosbash -
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton -
Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
Ted Deutch -
A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.
Octavio Paz -
To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.
Nuruddin Farah