Ishmael Beah Quotes

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

Ishmael Beah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: November 23, 1980

Topics

FunWritingPersonalAlwaysThings

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

John Catsimatidis

SadPeopleNobodyDestroyDestroys

Energy is our largest business in India but still has huge room to grow in new areas like renewables and distributed energy - as well as traditional gas and steam turbines and services.

John L. Flannery

BusinessEnergyGrowIndiaNewRoom

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

Michael Bay

CameraFewLotActuallyDirectors

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

Michael Chang

PastOpportunitiesThinkYouLook

You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.

Stacey Snider

LifeTimeRiverDestinationLook

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

Simon Mainwaring

PeopleClassPoorFallingOutRanks

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

BelieveNobodySalaryI BelieveSame

Something happens when two people from the same country, sharing the same heritage, meet and connect.

Costa Ronin

PeopleHeritageCountrySharingMeet

I'm a natural optimist.

Bozoma Saint John

OptimistNatural

The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.

Sheri L. Dew

PowerDarknessAgainstPriesthood

I believe I've always been so successful on the black market for a lot of different reasons.

Rick Ross

BelieveBlackI BelieveAlwaysBeen

Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

Marie Lu

MeBookHelpfulDifferentJustAlso

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