Islam is about finding your own space.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Recitation: by Male by Female
As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'
Jessica Williams
TimeWomanPeopleMeOpportunities
Without concentration, a business will be ordinary in every respect, because it will have no presence, no inner force, no way to attract the people upon whom it depends for its very existence - employees, customers, suppliers, and lenders.
Michael Gerber
BusinessRespectPeopleEmployees
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.
Siri Hustvedt
MyselfMeBrainHusbandReadingHe
President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.
Tom Daschle
LongYouGrowingKnowSaidEconomy
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Lord Byron
BookReadingDownWillNeverSingle
Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe.
Joseph Stiglitz
MeEconomyHappenEuropeGoing
I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
Jose Antonio Vargas
LifeMyselfPeopleWritingFace
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
Don Cornelius
LoveMusicSchoolEnoughTryNever
I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.
Douglas Coupland
CultureThinkSomeoneSmilingBack
One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.
Chris Roberson
MeToysSixtiesWithoutSeventies
I am wearing a size 28 Paige Jeans. Jeans don't lie, and I am just happy!
Ricki Lake
LieI AmHappyJeansSizeJust
By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
Jane Leavy
SportsTimeRedWritingWashington
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