Beirut Quote by Yasmine Hamdan Download Open image “When I go to Beirut, I don't drive. It's traumatizing to drive there.” — Yasmine Hamdan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beirut Drive Go Motivation
Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked. — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
“I should be in Beirut, I thought, working as a journalist, but another part of me was so wary of that old life of… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
There's obviously a big difference between driving on the freeway in the desert, where there are no children playing or running over the road,… — Henrik Fisker Copy Share Image
When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Lebanon is not only burning buildings and people crying in the street. When you say 'Lebanon,' especially to foreigners, that's the first thing they… — Nadine Labaki Copy Share Image
You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region. — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute,… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to remove it… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing brother. Where… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduced himself to somebody and they said,… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event.… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“In Beirut, death’s unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night’s Russian missiles, brighter than… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I don't think I ever fully understood before now the old saying that goes: "A mother's heart loves her young one until he grows;… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
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