Nuruddin Farah Quotes

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

Nuruddin Farah

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• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Promise
  • Research
  • Opportunities

• I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • School
  • Learn
  • Drama

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • History
  • Political
  • Meaning

• I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Who

• I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Movie
  • Small
  • Walking

• Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

  

  Barber Conable
  • Decision
  • Legislative

• Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Good
  • City

• I try to stay in decent shape.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Try
  • Shape
  • Decent

• Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Moral

• This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private. Always have an ace in the hole.

  

  Cole Porter

• One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Money

• When somebody is making a movie about your life, that's different. A show is a live performance. Things are going to go wrong. You are going to get away with things. A movie is indelible. A movie is through a microscope.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Addiction

• My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Career

• I became allergic to virtually all fruits and vegetables, and my weight tumbled. I am 5ft. 10in. but dropped to just 8 st. 7lbs.

  

  Jameela Jamil

• I can dance to Beyonce, sing karaoke, create strategy, go on dates, and build a multi-billion company and show the world that women can build big businesses.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • World
  • Women
  • Dance

• I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

  

  Portia Simpson-Miller
  • School
  • High
  • Girl

• ' Daisies' is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It's kind of morbid, you know. But there's a love to it. There's a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it - I don't know; it's a good thing to put out there in the world, so I'm glad people responded.

  

  Lee Pace
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I am in a league of my own. The game is on it's knees. The game must hold seminars every weekend to pay for their training costs and I'm out here rallying around California in a car that spits fire, dressed like El Chapo, with anacondas on my feet. So, I am in a league of my own here, ahead of everyone in the game by a country mile.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Country
  • Game
  • Car

• I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • Use
  • Happen

• I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

  

  Nuruddin Farah
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Keep