Deeyah Khan Quotes

Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

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• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
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• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
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• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!

  

  Laura Marano
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• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

  

  Acker Bilk
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• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
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• My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

  

  Debbie Ford
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• I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
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• It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

  

  Alan Paton
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• I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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• Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

  

  Deeyah Khan
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