Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

Alija Izetbegovic

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• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Character
  • Age
  • Pretty

• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Done
  • Role
  • Broadway

• It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Past
  • Feeling
  • Bridge

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Road
  • Creative
  • Process

• I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Together

• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Peace

• How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Game
  • You
  • Yesterday

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Happiness

• The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• No dream is ever chased alone.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Ever

• When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Attention
  • Kid
  • Pressure

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Life

• What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

  

  Jean Genet
  • Country
  • American
  • Black

• The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • People
  • Country
  • Review

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

  

  Chris Bradford
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mistake

• Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Racism