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Manal al-Sharif Quotes

I realised it is impossible to live with the rules they give Saudi women. Just impossible. You trying to do everything by the book, but you can never stay pure.

Manal al-Sharif

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: saudi arabian
Birth: April 25, 1979

Topics

Women Live Book Impossible You Pure

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

Jim Crace

Life Adventure My Life Admit Want

Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.

Joe Cocker

Life Rock And Roll My Life Rock Roll

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

Meir Soloveichik

Work People Wrong Right Always

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Excellence Fight Conquer Fighting

I always did plays, and when I went to NYU - and I didn't go to Tisch, the theater school, because I was like, 'Well, acting's not realistic. You can't make a career out of it.' So I just studied general studies and humanities at NYU, but I was doing plays while I was there. So I was sort of cheating.

Steve Zissis

School Cheating Doing You Acting Go

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.

Sid Waddell

Learning Good Yourself School You

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Tom Peters

Power Relationships Understand

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

Robert Dallek

Voice Congress Opposition Public

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

Robert B. Laughlin

Work Job Back Well-Being My Own Own

I grew up watching wrestling.

DeAngelo Williams

Wrestling Watching Up Grew

My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.

Claire Messud

Silence Table Three More Never Sit

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

Boy George

Dog Child Enough Responsible