Iman Quotes
People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
Quotes to Explore
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
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I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.
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Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
