Zainab Salbi Quotes

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

Zainab Salbi

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Children
  • Money
  • Giving

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Think
  • You
  • Nation

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Done
  • Enjoy

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • True
  • Career

• And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Character
  • Study

• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Helping
  • Doors
  • Opening

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pretty
  • Guitar
  • Gut

• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Say
  • Much
  • Gonna

• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Crazy
  • Sad
  • Angry

• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Success

• For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Years

• To pray to this God or that God or this religion and that religion or no religion at all, that's the reason why we built America. And that is still very much what we do in this country unless you're brown.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • God
  • Country
  • Why

• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Up
  • Through
  • Museums

• That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

  

  Debbie Stabenow
  • Children
  • Help
  • Fun

• I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

  

  Jay Mohr
  • Home
  • Business

• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom