Leila Aboulela Quotes

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

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• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Problems
  • Process
  • Down

• Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Man

• I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Think
  • Borders

• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Nice
  • Crazy
  • Swimming

• I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Think
  • Health
  • Better

• I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

  

  Joe Barton
  • Energy

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Pleasure

• It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Courage
  • Error
  • Suppose

• I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Mother
  • Son
  • Daughter

• My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Mother
  • Faith
  • Grandmother