Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

Jessica Raine

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My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

Ann Coulter

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And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Sibel Edmonds

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The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

Robert Fortune

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Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.

Martin Rees

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Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Michael Medved

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One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.

Loni Love

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I'm all about health.

Diamond Dallas Page

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After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

Clive Owen

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I wish I could score as many goals as I can in 'FIFA.'

Ali Krieger

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Denmark's fall and winter were really cold and long, actually, but my job often takes me to paradise, so I can't complain.

Nina Agdal

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There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier of problems, our intervention as a friend to both sides is important.

Richard Holbrooke

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