Abderrahmane Quotes & Sayings

Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people. — Hans Matheson

You're beautiful, Lacey. Nothing about you is disgusting. I love you, all of you. When I look at your chest, all I see is survival. I see a second chance at a life, a life with me. So please don't apologize for something you couldn't control. Just allow me to make love to you, and please don't ever forget how much I love you and how I think you are the most gorgeous girl in the world. — Toni Aleo

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu. — Abderrahmane Sissako

You can't fault people for who they vote for, who they don't vote for. — Mike Holloway

Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's universal. — Abderrahmane Sissako

Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else. — Abderrahmane Sissako

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is. — Abderrahmane Sissako

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work. — Robert J. Eaton

I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon. — Carolyn Chute

Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people. — Abderrahmane Sissako

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature. — Rajneesh

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film. — Abderrahmane Sissako

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen. — Abderrahmane Sissako

People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms. — Rob Bell

Of course, technology is very important now. It's there, its available. It's there to be use however you see fit. You can use it and the jihadist can use it. In their case they have been very effective at making use of technology, particularly with websites. It's primarily through these websites that they do their recruiting. But it's not technology that makes them that way. — Abderrahmane Sissako

Life is the childhood of immortality. — Daniel A. Poling

I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do. — Abderrahmane Sissako

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

That's a really healthy thing - family will always protect you from yourself. — Johann Lamont

We have observed, through our own experiences and those of others, that one never gets over the loss of a brother or a child or a spouse, or any dearly loved one; one simply learns to live life differently, with a sort of a hole in the heart. The wound in the heart heals over, but the tender scar remains. — Scott Rosenow

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes. — Jamie Lee Curtis

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. — Nikki Giovanni