Widad Akrawi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
-
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
-
I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
-
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
-
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
-
There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
-
Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
-
I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
-
My life is my message.
-
Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.
-
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
-
With acting, I didn't get much from it.
-
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
-
Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle.
-
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
-
Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.
-
My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
-
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
-
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
-
It’s a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation. It’s an assault on the ability of free people to live their lives, love who they want, and express their identity. It’s an attack on the right of every single American to live in peace and safety in their own country.
-
I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
-
We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.
