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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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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I know from personal experience what it's like to be discriminated against. I remember people telling me, 'Ladies don't become lawyers,' and now I look at America and know what can be done.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
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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.
