Quotes
Authors
Khaled Hosseini

"Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time."

-- Khaled Hosseini

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“Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?”
“Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.”
“After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.”
“I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.”

Source : "A Giant artistic Gibe at Jesse Helms" by Roberta Smith, New York Times, April 20, 1990.
“Since I've become more observant of how bikes and cars interact, I've decided that bicyclists have two major safety threats: cars and themselves.”
“Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.”
“You can't hire someone to practice for you.”
“You can take the girl out of the library, but you canâ€™t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.”

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