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Taslima Nasrin Quotes

I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

Taslima Nasrin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: bangladeshi
Birth: August 25, 1962

Topics

Live Culture Language Want Need

People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

Jerry Weintraub

Age Time People Road Year Young

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton

Overcome Force Half Who His Foe

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Anna Neagle

Alone Learn Necessary Should

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

Amy Tan

Time Day Job Parents Me Doctor

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Men Past Pleasure Hurry Pursue Most

Business leaders shape public opinion.

Marvin Bower

Business Opinion Shape Public Opinion

I am a person that when I go in the street, everybody knows me and goes: 'Oh, you are entering politics.' I want to do something positive for the future. It doesn't mean to become a leader of a party.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Positive Leader Future Politics I Am

The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?

Donald Johanson

Today People Why Question Ask Right

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

David Warner

Life Early Fault Mess Just How

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

Chubby Checker

Music Way Old Years Been Since

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.

Bobby Womack

Love Music Beautiful Hard Kid Stuff

I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Find Jazz Spirit My Own Capture Own