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.Fatema Mernissi
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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.
Nas -
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz -
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.
Pat Burns -
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.
Rachel Bilson -
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
Saint Ignatius -
I literally don't think about Oscar.
Octavia Spencer
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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.
Salman Khan -
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Natalie Cole -
I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
Quavo Migos -
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.
Harland Williams -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski
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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.
Olivia Wilde -
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.
Wayne McGregor -
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
Nawal El Saadawi -
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo -
Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
Pamela Meyer -
When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' I was so angry. I couldn't understand why it didn't say men as well.
Meghan Markle
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When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
Brit Marling -
I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.
Tom Cruise -
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard -
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.
Fatema Mernissi