Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

Some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

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• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Football
  • Dog
  • Youth

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Up
  • Age
  • Moment

• I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • People
  • Up
  • Environment

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • America
  • Night
  • Car

• I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Night
  • Day
  • Morning

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Long
  • Art
  • Job

• When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Free
  • Seriously

• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • More
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Proud
  • Military
  • Thought

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Driving
  • Saying
  • Ice

• Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

  

  Don Rickles

• Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Enemy
  • Productivity
  • Accounting

• It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Culture
  • Politics
  • Media

• The international community have to create pressure on Saleh. One, they have to establish an international commission so they can investigate the killing that is happening...Without that justice, and if they leave Saleh alone, there will be no security and peace, not only in Yemen and our region, but also around the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Community
  • Peace

• And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Air

• Some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Silence