Hiam Quotes & Sayings

My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another. — Hiam Abbass

My car was not gross; it was occupied, cluttered, cramped. It became an extension of my bedroom, and thus an extension of myself. I had two bumper stickers on the back: REPUBLICANS FOR VOLDEMORT and the symbol for the Equal Rights Campaign. On the back side windows were OBAMA '08 signs that my parents made me take down because they "dangerously blocked my sight lines." The trunk housed my guitar but was also the library, filled with textbooks and novels, the giant tattered copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and all one hundred chapters of Harry Potter on tape. — Marina Keegan

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together. — Neil Gaiman

Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace. — Philip Yancey

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what' — Norbert Wiener

I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation. — Hiam Abbass

I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy. — Marshall Brickman

God is the creator of love. He demonstrated His love to you through the sacrificial death of His Son. The closer you draw to God the more you will demonstrate your love for others by becoming a living sacrifice by putting others before yourself. — DeWayne Owens

Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses. — William Shakespeare

Simple things don't interest me. — Hiam Abbass

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way. — Hiam Abbass

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. — R.D. Laing

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result. — Hiam Abbass

Nine out of ten Afghan women will experience domestic abuse in some form, — Jenny Nordberg

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why. — Hiam Abbass

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore. — Matt Damon

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. — Hiam Abbass

My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature. — Hiam Abbass

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. — Bette Davis