A Quote by Diriye Osman

If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty dress from the thrift store, perhaps the solution is not to cast it aside. If dislocation is a tatty dress, perhaps the only solution is to mend it, scent it and wear it until everything about it signifies newness, something close to the perpetual promise of a fresh start.

Diriye Osman

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Diriye Osman
British - Writer
Born: 1983

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

P. J. O'Rourke

Simplicity is the base of everything. At the end of the day if you feel good about yourself, you don't need anything. You don't have to depend on the power of a dress to dress you up. You wear dress the dress, it's not the opposite. It's not only a designer, it's not only just fashion, it's a philosophy. It's a lifestyle.

Alessandra Mastronardi

Perhaps I should say that in general there are three solutions to such a situation. I mean not only in Holland, but everywhere where there are minority groups: in America, in Vietnam with the Chinese. Everywhere there is the same problem. But there are fundamentally three, actually only two possible solutions. A possible solution is that the despised minority is able to establish its own state somewhere else. The other solution is a higher or lesser degree of assimilation. And the third possibility, which is not a solution at all, is the permanence of the tension and conflict over time.

Norbert Elias

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

Richard Cohen

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Bayard Rustin

Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.

Elvis Mitchell

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

I don't want a one-state solution. But I certainly don't want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel's very existence would be jeopardized. And that's what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

Felicity Jones

As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my own work. In this way, dislocation and precision make total sense to me as a unit.

Laura van den Berg

No one was talking about a two-state solution until the '90s, then it became an acceptable solution.

Ayelet Shaked

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Bob Mould

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Susan Sontag

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

Michel Chossudovsky

Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.

Om Malik

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

Arthur Koestler

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