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Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

Alija Izetbegovic

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: bosniak
Birth: August 8, 1925 - October 19, 2003

Topics

Peace Sacrifice Win Sovereignty

In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.

Life Support King City Lost Workers

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

Stephen Sondheim

Song Story Enjoy Back Stage Singer

I wear stuff I regret all the time. It's very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.

Suki Waterhouse

Good Time Regret Think Picture Look

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

I Am Thinking Old Belong Melody Who

I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.

Alone Singing You Know Kind More

Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us.

Opportunity Grow Begin Break Own Us

I am very emotional.

I Am Emotional Very Am

Being a female head of a successful tech company means that I'm in a pretty niche category.

Company Head Pretty Niche Successful

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene. I like a director that encourages me to be playful.

Time Me Search Giving Doing You

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

Svetlana Alexievich

Train Person Street Listen More Ear

If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.

Life Step Believe Better Be True

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Thomas Traherne

Soul Mind Book Nothing Anything May

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