Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WarPeopleWinningLivingIslam

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

Andy Roddick

YouKnowOutGetKnockedThrow

I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically.

Stellan Skarsgard

KnowMeatCutCookHowYeah

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Steven Stucky

PatienceMusicCharacterHabitFake

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

Stevie Wonder

TimeReadingThinkPictureCamera

If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.

Robert Crumb

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Some hospitals screen all ICU patients and isolate those with MRSA, a process that can be challenging for both caregivers and patients.

Tom Frieden

ProcessScreenHospitalsSomeThose

When your leader is misbehaving, it's very easy for other people to follow that.

Lois Frankel

LeaderPeopleEasyFollowYourVery

I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.

Jay McInerney

SuccessPeopleMeThinkWriteBig

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

Donna Air

LifeMy LifeExperimentBeenLike

Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.

Chellie Pingree

BeginningInternetContentPrinciple

I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.

Christian Slater

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I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

Clive Owen

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