Zainab Salbi Quotes

My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the "backlines," where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.

Zainab Salbi

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• 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.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
  • Well

• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Nobody
  • Anymore
  • Crowded

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Wedding

• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Shows

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Work
  • Author

• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Guy

• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Thought

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

  

  Ice T
  • Player
  • Understand
  • Need

• I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Change
  • Ideas

• An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • Hope
  • Survive

• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Steps
  • Higher
  • Climbing

• My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the "backlines," where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • World
  • Women