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.
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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.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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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.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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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.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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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.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.
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I want to be in places I've never been before.
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We had to google the lyrics to our own song
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I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.
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As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.
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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.'
