Mona Eltahawy Quotes

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate rebuke to dictators and Bin Laden.

Mona Eltahawy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

DaysDictatorsEgyptiansRebukeBen

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

Jessie J

TimeMomentThinkLongYouCareer

If Trump expects the Americans who did not vote for him to accept him as president, he needs to show that he accepts all of them as Americans. He needs to show that he understands their concerns and hears their fears.

Jennifer Palmieri

VoteAcceptPresidentHimShowWho

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Jenny Eclair

MarriageThinkLikeVulgarI Think

After the love of my family, there's nothing more important to me than winning football games.

Robert Kraft

FamilyLoveFootballMeWinning

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Jean Piaget

LearningIntelligenceYouSituation

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

John Strachan

WorldFoundationRisePlaceMoral

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there.

St. Lucia

LifeMusicInfluenceThinkMy Life

With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don't have to play it - it's just gotta be there, and if the story's good and the script's good, people will see it.

Robert Taylor

GoodPeopleStoryThinkGood People

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

Mike Schultz

BuildingCreatingMetalEquipment

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.

Mike Mills

JobBrainStartKeyLearnYou

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Josef Skvorecky

SeaCriticismLiteratureLookGolden

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

Don Henley

SingingBodyBadBackOutAlignment

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Mona Eltahawy