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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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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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.
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The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.
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It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
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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.
