Nadia Ali Quotes
I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.
