Fatema Mernissi Quotes
If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.
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Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
