Fatema Mernissi Quotes
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
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We have a lot to be proud of so far this season. It's not just about being right there with teams like the Yankees and A's. It's about what we've developed into.
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The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
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I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.
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There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
