All Quotes

"I stepped back from acting because I was bringing up a child. You can't do both."

"It's exactly at the moment that they want you most – at the end of the day when it's bathtime, storytime, bedtime – that's when you're walking out the door. I couldn't bear that brave little look as he said, 'Goodbye'. So I thought Josh is more important than a play."

"Nature has a way of dealing with your brain when you have a child – it turns it to porridge."

"You realise retrospectively mother nature has made you absolutely focused and cow-like. Then you realise your child is infinitely cleverer than you will ever be, and wittier and funnier, and you like being in its company and so you think, 'I haven't done a bad job, really."

"There wasn’t a collection of American Muslim women’s writings across ethnic and ideological lines, These women don’t remember a time when they weren’t both American and Muslim, much unlike our parents, who were raised in other countries or in other faith traditions."

"It doesn’t matter if you have to stand in lines for five or six hours to vote. Stand there.”"

"And so I believed,that these limitations were prescribed by Islam, and as a good Muslim girl, I should comply. The reward would be a picture-perfect life, which meant good grades, getting into a great college, marrying a wonderful man, having a baby within two years and then pursuing graduate school. I lived that illusion for many years."

"For the first time, we have a critical mass of American Muslim women who are pioneering American Muslim culture"

"I think I’m a pretty woke person. I’m pretty sensitive to the way people feel."

"I think with gender and sexuality, I definitely belong on a spectrum. Even with identity, I want to belong on a spectrum."

"Journalists ask us about being a female comedian, but they don’t talk to us for the work we’re doing, you know? No one really sees Kaneez as an improv artist–just that label of female comedian. And that’s the biggest challenge. People think my brand of comedy is ”˜female comedy’ but that’s not a brand of comedy”¦ Everyone defines me as a ”˜female comedian’ and I do so much more."

"The extra mile that I have to cover being a female improviser is that people are not used to seeing women on stage being funny so for a lot of shows, for the first ten minutes I have to kind of break that down or address it and get it off their minds so eventually they can just see me as a gender-neutral comedian. I have to spend time in making them get over the fact that I am a woman."

"You won’t believe but a lot of us women intentionally dress down because we just don’t want any distraction. We just want you to see us as gender neutral so we end up dressing down which is fine, it does not bother me but it is interesting that we have to do that."

"Bishop Flaget's great experience, absolute self-denial, and holy life gave him great influence in the councils of the Church and at Rome."

"We are stewards of the environment, not owners."

"The future of our planet lies in our hands, let's take care of it."

"Every action we take has an impact on the environment, choose wisely."

"Nature is our greatest teacher, let's learn from it."

"We need to shift from a mindset of exploitation to one of stewardship."

"Protecting the environment is not a choice, it is a responsibility."

"The beauty of nature is a gift, let's cherish and protect it."

"I get a kick out of helping people."

"I wouldn’t have been exposed to that if I stayed in Forbes Park all my life."

"Just watch me, I will transform this into a paradise for children."

"It’s a consciousness thing. There are different levels of being and one continues to evolve. The people who are apathetic will not be that way forever. Life is a constant state of evolution. The universe will always see to it that everyone grows."

"Education, nutrition, environment, money — these are simple, important things that make life complete. The economic numbers alone don’t translate into the nation’s progress."

"You can quote me on this. Politics is really messy. All I want to do is just to save water."

"It is the constitutional right of every Filipino to a clean and healthy environment. It was a dream and a promise we had for the country and it is unfortunate that business interests have in fact run the day."

"What I’m doing is life. You need to sustain life. Maybe from that comes a deeper and more enlightened perception of what is needed to sustain life, and the role of the environment in the sustenance of life."

"If we kill our land, our water, our air for whatever reason, you kill life. For me, you kill the constitutional right of a Filipino, which is the right to a clean and healthy environment. Here it is forces of greed and selfishness that threaten life. I see the government as the only institution that’s in the position to curtail the forces of greed and selfishness. It’s the role of government to do that."

"The damage was urgent and I needed to act with urgency."

"I’m not a politician. That’s not who I am."

"I support him because he believes in helping people. He’s sincere about that. He really is. It’s in his heart. I admire him for that. We agree on a lot of things. I told him give me one year, maybe two years. I’ll make a difference. If I don’t I’ll leave. He said okay."

"Each open pit is a financial liability for government for life," Lopez told a media briefing. "It kills the economic potential of the place."

"It's the mandate of the mining law that you should not do anything which puts at risk the lives of present and future generations."

"If you killed the Environment, you kill everything."

"And whose duty is it to protect our people? It's the government. And when you make decisions based on business interests, you have shirked your responsibility. You have lost the moral ascendancy to rule the government because to you, business and money is more important than the welfare of our people."

"I’m going to do the right thing and let the dice fall where it may."

"One of the biggest mistakes of humanity is to foolishly think we are these physical bodies and life ends when this physical body deteriorates."

"Life is what you make of it. The experience of life is how you see it."

"We’re not small! We should believe we can fly."

"I believe that through care of the environment and good marketing, communities can get out of poverty very quickly."

"I don't like suffering and I don't like injustice."

"The international law maxim that defines the high seas as a common heritage of mankind and guarantees equal right of access and use to all states must be brought to reality in collaboration with other states"

"No state should be excluded from development opportunities due to geography"

"The time is now to work towards Africa's true independence, driven by African agency and guided by the common destiny of our people"

"The path of violence must yield to the power of diplomacy"

"The spirit, genius, and competence of humanity towards unity, justice, and collective wellbeing will triumph over the current atmosphere of rivalry"

"No state can single-handedly manage global challenges. We, therefore, call on fellow Member States, especially developed countries that have historic responsibilities, to reverse recent downward trends and intensify efforts towards the collective public good of development and peace."

"Africa, guided by Agenda 2063, is advancing development as its preferred security policy"