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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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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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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Any job I do-if it doesn’t work, somebody pays. Possibly hundreds or thousands of somebodies. That’s the price of good engineering; nobody notices you did your job right.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
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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.
