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Iman Quotes

My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Iman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: model
Nationality: somali
Birth: July 25, 1955

Topics

Father Mother Independence Generation

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.

Jennifer McMahon

Family Child Hair Woods Feathers

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Always Convenience Speaking Devices

If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

John Niven

Water People Cold Long You Jump

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

Michael Franti

Time People Saying View Living

I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake... you get to a certain point in your career where you say, 'I want to now cover what I want to cover.'

Soledad O'Brien

You Career Now Say Want Point

Pitching is a priority.

Tom Hicks

Pitching Priority

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

Michael Wilbon

Basketball Golf You Done Now Tennis

We were created to be woman and man and make kids.

Juan Pablo Galavis

Woman Man Make Kids Created Were

I swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.

Dick Van Dyke

Day Singing Every Day Gym Go Little

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

Christopher Gadsden

Business Law Devil Fall Go Say

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

Christian Louboutin

Teacher School Table Always Because

Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.

Christian Slater

Live Time People Me Project Image