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

• 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

• 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

• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Safety
  • Planet

• On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Scenery

• By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • King

• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

  

  Om Puri
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • My Life

• We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Family
  • Home
  • House

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

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Silence