Deeyah Khan Quotes
We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities.
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I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That's it.
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I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.
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We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.
