Tariq Ramadan Quotes

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

Tariq Ramadan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: August 26, 1962

Topics

SoulLosingNationalismSecurity

When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

Jimmy Cliff

MusicPeopleLivedBeatReggaeWere

My dad, who I'm very close to, is one of those men where once you're in, once he loves you, that's it, no questions about it.

Jesse Plemons

MenQuestionsYouWhereWhoHe

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

Jenny Lewis

CoolRememberCountryLyingListen

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.

Meg Cabot

MotherSpringStoryGoddessSeeHer

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

Angie Stone

MusicMeDrivingBagAlwaysKeep

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

Michael Hastings

ToughQuestionsYouWantPossible

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

AttitudeRespectTimeMindStart

I'm used to bad reviews.

Roger Moore

BadUsedReviews

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

Rory McIlroy

YourselfTreatRestGolfEnoughYou

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

Michael Shannon

PeopleActingNeverAbleEverybody

I'm always excited to create space for people to relate to one another.

Liv Bruce

SpacePeopleCreateAlwaysExcited

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

InnovationHealthPastWorldEnough

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