Ali Suliman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.

  • People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  • In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

  • Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  • Political development should start at the grassroots.

  • Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

  • What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

  • I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

  • For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

  • I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.