Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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  • Knowledge
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• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
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• Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Speak
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• For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
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• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  

  Wallace Stegner
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  • Reading
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• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
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• My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

  

  Floyd Skloot
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• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Day
  • Thought
  • Sun

• I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
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• I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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  • Love
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• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Law

• It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

  

  Daisy Donovan
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  • Work
  • God

• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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  • Long
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• The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

  

  Feist
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• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

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• Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.

  

  Aberjhani
  • She
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

  

  Ralph Peters
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  • Age
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• There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.

  

  Jimmy Haynes
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.

  

  Jon Beason
  • Game
  • Career
  • Respect

• I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • Fighting
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• In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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