Rumaan Alam Quotes

By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

Rumaan Alam

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When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera.

Sondra Radvanovsky

I AmChanceSomeoneYouTalkStage

I'm not scared to go to the ground. I've been wrestling my whole life. I've done a lot of jiu jitsu, but I like standing up, and every fight starts there.

Stipe Miocic

LifeFightGoDoneWrestlingScared

If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition of wearable computing can be kind of fuzzy itself. Thousands of years ago, in China, people would wear an abacus around their neck - that, in one sense, was a wearable computer.

Steve Mann

FatherHistoryBe KindPeopleWorld

The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.

Antonya Nelson

HeartBattleMessyAlwaysHeadMost

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Alice Walker

WorldFreeGreedConfusedHumanity

Sailing is in the same vein as horse riding. There's a beauty to it; it's an elegant sport. You have to employ your intelligence. It's technical, but you also have to take into account the natural elements - the wind, the water, the weather.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana

BeautyWaterIntelligenceWindHorse

My first job was, like, McDonald's.

Swae Lee

JobMcDonaldFirstLikeFirst Job

There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.

Peter Morgan

TruthHistoryEthicsPeopleAim

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

Peter Tosh

FatherMotherTimeManMeGuitar

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

Perry Christie

ExperiencePeopleMePartnershipOut

Professional fights between men and women send the message that violence between men and women is appropriate. In most homes, that's not a fair fight, which is why I'm against intergender boxing.

Thomas Hauser

WomenMenFightViolenceBoxingWhy

I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

Toby Young

OverMissBeingChefs

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