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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: dutch
Birth: November 13, 1969

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Broken Me Country Realistic Left

Every August, I go away for four weeks to a place in Michigan. I work in the mornings, spend the month in shorts and flip-flops. It gives me time to think like an investor and come back in September for some heavy planning.

Work Time Me Planning Think Back

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to contribute to, people approach me and say, 'Hey, would you like to do this?' I laugh out loud and say, 'Yes, that'd be funny.' Or, I'm very moved by what I read and say, 'Yes. How can I help you?'

Funny People Me Chance Laugh Help

I think I could survive a week without eating.

Eating Survive Think Week Without

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

Stupid Think You Something

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.

Best American Comedy Beginnings Did

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

Ronnie Montrose

Business Music Yourself I Am Doing

I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor. This dilettantism.

People Find Actor Being Exciting

I think that 'Station to Station' is a nomadic project not only in a literal sense, as it's traveling by train from place to place. Some of these places are New York City or Los Angeles, but some of these places are rather off-the-grid places.

New York City Think Train Place New

I earned a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2009.

Christine Blasey Ford

School Medicine Master University

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

People Free Fighting Break Bigger

With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.

Experience People Sadness America

If you win as a unit, everybody gets credit for it.

Win Credit You Everybody Unit Gets

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