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Read quote“She [hockey] found me at the age of five and since then, I have loved her, respected her and worshiped her.”
Read quote“Tragedy needs a strong storyteller, otherwise it doesn’t exist.”
Read quote“The patriarchal culture and the discrimination against women, particularly in the Islamic countries, cannot continue for ever.”
Read quote“We are talking to ourselves as we must and if we are overheard in America, or England, so much the better.”
Read quote“One of the first businesses I launched was when I asked my mother to make me balela (a traditional chickpea soup), and I sold it to my friends in the street.”
Read quote“When hope dies, people can't do anything.”
Read quote“كل الخطايا مغفورة مادامت لا تتعلق بحقوق غيرك من البشر”
Read quote“The panic that seized [Lebanon] is really hard to describe because we've been through so much already.”
Read quote“That subject, handled in your striking manner, would ease the yoke (perhaps) of many;—but if only of one—Gracious God!—what a feast to a benevolent heart!”
Read quote“I was able to discover some parts of my lost self.”
Read quote“เราจักสำแดงความเป็นไทยต่อโลก”
Read quote“I will continue to raise my voice until there is human rights in Vietnam, real human rights.”
Read quote“Nothing is impossible.”
Read quote“The Otira Gorge ... forms a tract of the most enchanting scenery in the Colony, not to be equalled by anything of a similar kind I have yet seen in any part of the world.”
Read quote“reaction to my experience as a black man in a social world created by white people primarily for their own ends”
Read quote“In the case of history what matters is its meaning; its medium is events, and its vehicle is literature.”
Read quote“The spirit of communion, community, that's the one that has to be strengthened.”
Read quote“I had little time to stop, make deep friendships. I could indulge a leaning toward speculation and fantasy.”
Read quote““But when I got good, they couldn’t admit it.””