Ishmael Beah Quotes

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

Ishmael Beah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Growing UpSpeakLanguageLearnYou

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

John Belushi

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Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I'm very lucky. I'm not too exposed to social media and is going quite well for me. I like to have my privacy.

Anna Ewers

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I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

Amy Tan

PeoplePresentYouFindSkills

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

Steve Coogan

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If you ask my favourite team, I'll say Arsenal. It is a club with a good philosophy, where youngsters get their chance.

Michy Batshuayi

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We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Jonathan Lethem

MePathsFindFeelingsOnlyAccess

We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.

Doug Aitken

CommunicationMovingWorldLandscape

Jill Stein does not have the experience necessary to lead at a national level.

Christine Todd Whitman

ExperienceLeadLevelNecessaryDoes

My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.

Chris Milk

PeopleStoryGoalWillEmotional

It's silly to have a prototype, because one inevitably falls for someone unexpected. My only criterion is she shouldn't just look nice; she must have a personality, too.

Arjun Kapoor

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