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Deeyah Khan Quotes

Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression.

Deeyah Khan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: August 7, 1977

Topics

Religion Choose Oppression Worship

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

John Liu

City Management Privilege Office Had

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

Andy Pick

Cricket Play Class First First Class

For every Netflix, there's a Blockbuster. Every Facebook, a MySpace.

John Rampton

Netflix Facebook Every Blockbuster

When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.

Michael Tubbs

Think Back Coming Left Stanford Did

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Louis Farrakhan

Legacy Think Indeed About

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

Jaron Lanier

Adventure People Road Generation

You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.

Don Lemon

Me Beard You Look Brooklyn Go

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Deborah Norville

Amazing You Things Happen True Who

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection Design Nothing Take Left

Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.

Asma Jahangir

Fear Roots Violence Country Mob

Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

Petina Gappah

Broadcasting Only Reporter Zimbabwe

There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

Seanan McGuire

Death I Am People Dinner Black