Deeyah Khan Quotes

Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

Deeyah Khan

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FamilyChildrenExpectationsChoice

You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?

Jilly Cooper

FamilyLoveTomorrowFriendsYouGo

I'm somewhat old-fashioned, and I still talk about playing a part. I don't talk about my work - 'I've seen some of your work' - there's not much work in it, is there?

John Hurt

WorkTalkPlayingSeenOld-Fashioned

A hashtag is not a movement.

Shonda Rhimes

Movement

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

Rosanne Cash

DownThreeUsJustTourDid

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

Russell Peters

MediaReasonWhateverOutsider

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

Douglas Coupland

StupidWorldThinkUnderstandSee

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Donna Tartt

LifeVisionRomanticUglyKnowHard

I don't remember the exact moment I fell in love with snowboarding; it wasn't something cheesy like, 'Oh the wind was blowing through my hair and I just knew this sport was for me... ' I was good at it, and it's exhilarating!

Chloe Kim

LoveGoodMomentMeWindHair

Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for how funny he is.

Brett Gelman

FunnyWorldThinkEnoughCreditGet

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

Annie Lennox

PowerBelievePictureUnderstanding

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

Sherrod Brown

ChangeFoodGovernmentSafetyRights

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

Tino Sehgal

PeopleYouLookBackMuseumWant

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