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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.


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HANNAH SIMONE I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had...
HANNAH SIMONE As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in Am...
HANNAH SIMONE Charlotte is a very interesting place - I'm Canadian, but I've lived in Toronto, Vancouver, ...
DIEGO KLATTENHOFF I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne...
STEWART BUTTERFIELD I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
CHARLES KEATING I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then...
DAVID BOWIE I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON India considers Saudi Arabia a center of stability in the region. The security and stability of the ...
SALMAN KHURSHID Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
SALMAN KHURSHID I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angele...
DYLAN BRUCE But Saudi Arabia and Kuwait offer, I think, the best opportunities in the gas sector.
ARCHIE DUNHAM I live in L.A. - I love L.A., first off - but I didn't realize how much better the air quality w...
EMMA BELL Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit ob...
JORDAN GAVARIS I love India. I love the people, food and the environment. Yes, I am from London, but right from whe...
JIAH KHAN I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in ...
JACQUELINE MACINNES WOOD I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air polluti...
JACK W. SZOSTAK My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN My client believed he was a Yemeni working in Saudi Arabia.
JASON BURNETT If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon fr...
BASMAH BINT SAUD I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I w...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursda...
LEON CHARNEY I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.
LYKKE LI Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn'...
ASIF KAPADIA I lived in Cyprus for six years where I learnt all about flatbreads.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic C...
DAVE EGGERS Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremis...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outside...
ANGELA BOWIE Good guy... I'm sure you guys have met him before but uh, I was in London [England] and uh...
LONDON LEGRAND In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something ca...
PETER ACKROYD So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they...
FRANK CARLUCCI I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle...
FRANK CARLUCCI Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was be...
JOHN MAHONEY The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened f...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I don't have any specific concerns about Saudi Arabia at this time.
GUY CARUSO Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bri...
HUGO WEAVING My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd ...
F. GARY GRAY The commissioner, Gary Bettman , promises a season starting in October. If that means replacement pl...
WAYNE GRETZKY I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Ar...
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the r...
ROBERT LACEY And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL that touch internally within Saudi Arabia.
EVAN BAYH Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the ...
AL-WALEED BIN TALAL I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I'm pretty sure N...
ALAN YANG I said Dontrelle Willis before the game. I say Chris now. I faced Chris when he was in Toronto and I...
DOUG MIENTKIEWICZ Great entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia are interested in helping promote the Arab language.
ANTONIO SARKIS JR I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then m...
AARON PAUL a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia.
PRINCE ABDULLAH I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Th...
ALEXANDER HANSON I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now...
ETHAN CANIN India and Cyprus represent old civilizations. Cyprus today has per capita income of over 20,000 doll...
ANAND SHARMA I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.
FRENCH MONTANA We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was...
DANIEL YERGIN Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would neve...
BRUNO TONIOLI I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study danc...
LAURIEANN GIBSON I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.
AL-WALEED BIN TALAL I would say overall it was a relatively stress free market. People were more on the level and the co...
GEORGE INY I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I ...
PETE HAMILL The Western oil companies have really been kept out of Saudi Arabia for many, many years, and I thin...
ARCHIE DUNHAM I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived i...
CHRIS GEERE I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my...
ANNE PERRY I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amaz...
CATE BLANCHETT Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we ...
DANIEL WOODRELL I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.
MARY MACLANE Actually, our current military presence in Saudi Arabia could be described as more than merely symbo...
GENJOHN ABIZAID I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
MAYA ANGELOU Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel o...
FAREED ZAKARIA Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter ...
CHERYL HINES But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defi...
DAVE EGGERS I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all m...
KARAN SINGH GROVER I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - onl...
BASMAH BINT SAUD In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a...
VICTORIA BECKHAM 'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It wa...
PATINA MILLER Saudi Arabia condemns the brutal assaults inflicted on Palestinian citizens in Jerusalem by Israeli ...
SAUDI ARABIA I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in...
EDWARD RUSCHA So when I arrived in Saudi Arabia in August of 2001, as there was no chemical, biological, or nuclea...
BRIAN CASTNER I went to L.A., and I was on two different studio movies at Fox and Sony, but they were never made i...
GURINDER CHADHA I've never been part of it. I'm really looking forward to it. After Vancouver and Calgary and what w...
KRIS DRAPER I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
TA-NEHISI COATES I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE We don't want him to go back to Saudi Arabia. We believe he is under a death sentence right now.
FRANCIS CARTER I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do
PAULA POUNDSTONE I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but V...
LAURA MENNELL The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazi...
RACHEL CUSK The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arab...
FRANK CARLUCCI I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
DAISY RIDLEY One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that l...
SPIKE MILLIGAN In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was b...
DAN HILL I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, th...
JANE GOODALL I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi ...
ROBERT LACEY

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"Why?"
I gi...
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SIMONE BILES For me to compete at the highest level, training and living a healthy lifestyle is an everyday focus...
SIMONE BILES It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperon...
SIMONE BILES I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I'm ...
SIMONE BILES For me, I don't think about size - I focus more on being powerful and confident.
SIMONE BILES I don't really think about the degree of difficulty or the possibility of making a mistake. I ju...
SIMONE BILES I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.
SIMONE BILES The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially ...
SIMONE BILES You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out ...
SIMONE ELKELES When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are p...
SIMONE ELKELES Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way m...
SIMONE ELKELES Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b...
NINA SIMONE I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now...
NINA SIMONE I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow."
"A back rub is harmless."
My eyes ro...
SIMONE ELKELES I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the worl...
NINA SIMONE We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private."
"A smug expr...
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