Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Aleksandar Hemon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: bosniak
  • Birth: September 9, 1964

Topics

MeSomeoneKindSuperiorityResist

Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

Ann Cotton

WomenKnowledgePowerMoneyStruggle

I'm someone who is inspired by people who've spoken out about different racial and gender issues.

Amandla Stenberg

PeopleSomeoneGenderRacialOut

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

Steven Spielberg

TimeSchoolThinkChapterFinish

In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.

Rithy Panh

PastDesireTestifyFilms

When we talk about 'Firepower,' we're talking about the fire and power of heavy metal to prevail and endure difficulties. 'Children of the Sun,' is, to some extent, about climate change and the ecosystem... We want to deliver a message to the people without being too much of a teacher.

Rob Halford

ChangePowerChildrenTeacherFire

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

Roger Ascham

LiveWorldOthersMarkServeOnly

Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

CourageCommitmentPeopleReality

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Jolene Blalock

I AmHappyMeProcessPlaceAccept

What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.

DeRay Mckesson

FutureTodayTomorrowRealityChoose

I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like.

Deb Caletti

PopcornNeverBallLikeMet

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Breyten Breytenbach

HistoryWarMindBetterPowerful

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