Fatema Mernissi Quotes
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Sunday night is curry night. I always order a spinach paneer and a chicken tikka. There's usually something good on TV like 'Mr Selfridge' or 'Downton Abbey,' so I'll watch them before I have to think about blowdrying my hair and all the other boring stuff us girls have to do!
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
