Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessPartyTroubleLaborWrite

I love to play any character that isn't close to my personality.

Trevor Jackson

LoveCharacterPersonalityPlayAny

I only eat spicy food.

Joshua Ledet

FoodSpicyEatOnlySpicy Food

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

Jared Harris

NeverNormalGetCastCharacters

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

FriendshipFriendFatherPeaceWife

The mobile Internet is growing, fueled by increasing smartphone penetration and better networks.

Chua Sock Koong

InternetBetterGrowingMobile

My goal was never to sell many records.

Chuck Mangione

GoalNeverSellRecordsMany

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

Ansel Elgort

SmileFaceGetOffHatedPerforming

I've got the chance to make history, and that means such a lot to me.

Ashley Cole

HistoryMeChanceGotMakeMeans

England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.

Wole Soyinka

LogicViolenceReligionsGroundNone

From the beginning, the Mac has been about Apple taking responsibility for the whole thing: hardware, software, how applications can work, and, increasingly, Internet services.

Phil Schiller

WorkResponsibilityBeginningApple

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

Thomas Frank

MortgageCandyParadeOutIndustry

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Tina Brown

JobWorldWeirdOldCorruptHang

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