Fatema Mernissi Quotes
No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
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We made a proposition for 38 communal mayors and 90 districts. We were aiming to have this proposition accepted and that is what happened.
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Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.
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No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
