Haifaa Al Quotes & Sayings

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day. — Haifaa Al-Mansour

When they came to harvest my corpse
(open your mouth, close your eyes)
cut my body from the rope,
surprise, surprise:
I was still alive.
Tough luck, folks,
I know the law:
you can't execute me twice
for the same thing. How nice.
I fell to the clover, breathed it in,
and bared my teeth at them
in a filthy grin.
You can imagine how that went over.
Now I only need to look
out at them through my sky-blue eyes.
They see their own ill will
staring then in the forehead
and turn tail
Before, I was not a witch.
But now I am one. — Margaret Atwood

I don't think about what I'll get from someone else. Instead, all I care about is what I can give. And that, my friend, has made me a very happy man. — Robin S. Sharma

I don't really know on the jobs I don't get - nobody calls me up and says, 'Yeah, you were too tall!' I don't know if it was that or one of a bunch of other factors. But it is awkward. I can't wear heels. — Anne Dudek

I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits. — Mark Zuckerberg

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. — Jean Piaget

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. — Victoria Moran

Money is my drug of choice
and you can't make money if you're always stoned or high. (Twila Taunton in Redneck P.I.) — Trish Jackson

My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program (search) from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border. — Kinky Friedman

All I can say is hold on, and prepare ... — Tom DeLonge

Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing. — Haifaa Al-Mansour

This is a donut. It is very sweet, and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and how good a donut is ... meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut. — David Lynch

No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut. — Haifaa Al-Mansour

If you just concentrate on what you're doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the rhythms, whatever the songs, 9 out of 10 times it will work. — Ben E. King