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Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.

Alija Izetbegovic

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Best Fun Sometimes Us Our

There's no debate about the greenhouse effect, just like there's no debate about gravity. If someone throws a piano off the roof, I don't care what Sarah Palin tells you, get out of the way because it's coming down on your head.

Care Someone You Debate Down Way

I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.

Character Walk Law Career Done Up

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

Yourself You Bad Possible Prepare

Nobody knows the hard work that goes in the morning before I do anything.

Work Hard Work Morning Nobody Hard

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

Great Experience Pretty Everybody

There's always something in Atlanta that's so far from people's comfort zone.

People Comfort Zone Comfort Atlanta

African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name.

Soledad O'Brien

Solitude Prison Name Lonely Meaning

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

Rule Punctual Establishment

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Work Me Know Activism May Somebody

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

Love Great Adventure Joy Me Writing

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Freedom Fool Person Become Only His

Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

Sex Bed Sleeping Going Made Course

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