Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.
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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.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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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.
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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.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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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.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
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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.
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it's good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble.
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Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
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May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit towards those who have? And now, let me close by asking three hearty cheers for our brave soldiers and seamen, and their gallant and skillful commanders.
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But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.
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This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.
