Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes
We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity.
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I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.
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A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
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The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
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My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
