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Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 12, 1952

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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

John Ashcroft

People Look FBI Able How Agent

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

Michael Caine

Character Self Three Difficult Two

I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.

Soccer Mommy

Music Down Listen Nashville Punk

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

Trip Hawkins

Way Scared Hang Being Being Scared

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

Trevor Paglen

Me Artist Place Try Changes See

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Rita Ora

Lonely Feeling Being Terrible

We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

Martin Scorsese

Past People Thinking You Cinema Way

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

Juergen Teller

School Learn Guilt You Kid Being

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

Allan Houston

Life Think You Athlete Bigger Level

I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.

Pierce Brosnan

Being Been Upbringing Celtic Accused

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

James Frey

Positive Walk I Am People Negative

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

Gustavo Dudamel

Love Travel Place Nice Sometimes