Art Malik Quotes
When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
Quotes to Explore
-
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
-
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
-
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
-
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
-
Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
-
I don't like controversy.
-
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
-
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
-
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
-
I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
-
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
-
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
-
The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
-
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
-
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
-
Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
-
I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
-
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
-
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
-
I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it!
-
We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.
-
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
-
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
-
When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
