Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama -
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Vicente Fox -
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
Naomie Harris -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
Faye Wattleton -
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
Van Morrison -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln -
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
Maggie Grace -
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken -
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao -
To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
Yuna -
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
Nandan Nilekani -
Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
Camille Paglia
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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
Plutarch -
I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.
Gabriel Campisi -
The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.
John Wycliffe -
I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali