Tash Sultana Quotes

Australia is not a safe place.

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

I was a street performer for two years.

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

I'd get a train to some town and wander about to find a decent spot. Sometimes I'd play for three hours; sometimes I'd get moved on after three songs.

There's crime everywhere.

It is so frustrating to feel in danger. People have followed me around at 2 in the morning and have literally said, 'Don't make me follow you. You're not responding to me.' It's incredibly degrading.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

Each day in Texas, law enforcement officers keep us safe from dangers we don't have to worry about.

If you go out for a jog you feel threatened because all of these men start following you, cat-calling and whistling at you.

The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen stormed into our hotel in Cairo. I heard shots coming from the lobby and ran downstairs to check on my dad. By the time I got there, he was just calmly zipping up his workbag while three unconscious gunmen hung by their feet from the chandelier, their robes falling over their heads so you could see their boxer shorts. Dad claimed not to have witnessed anything, and in the end the police blamed a freak chandelier malfunction.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

I've always had life threats, and they've always been for real.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.

In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.