Deeyah Khan Quotes

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

Deeyah Khan

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ManSocietyToughMasculinityRole

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MomentGratefulMeWinningBook

A lot of people can raise money.

Andrew Mason

MoneyPeopleRaiseLot

When the Seven Deities let me know what I must do to be complete again - even though I will be stronger and more than just a regular mortal man - I will fulfill that mission and become whole once more.

Matt Hardy

ManMeMissionStrongerKnowBecome

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

Jeff Goldblum

FriendFishingMeFishEatLittle

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Michael Hayden

GovernmentPeopleWorldSayingRest

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

Stanley Bing

JobManagementYouSafeShoulders

The mind is a muscle.

Robert Wilson

MindMuscle

We want every generation to know a little something about TLC.

Rozonda Thomas

GenerationKnowWantLittleTLC

I never told my parents that I was doing boxing. They only came to know after I became state champion and my name and picture came in the newspaper.

Mary Kom

ParentsChampionNamePictureDoing

Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

Michael Kelly

PowerYouSomethingGravitateToward

In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he's drawing a pistol.

Michael Korda

ThinkDrawingBadWillSideOnly

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

David Suchet

GreatDayNeverCafeBoredWatch

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