Fatema Mernissi Quotes
The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
Fatema Mernissi
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
Carli Lloyd
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
Ramez Naam
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
Sam Kean
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
Ornette Coleman
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl Barth
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
Gary Hart
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When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.
Om Puri
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When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.
Tara Brach
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
Laura Marling
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I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.
Kate Winslet
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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
Octavia E. Butler
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You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
Brad Pitt
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To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.
David Wallace Crowder
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
Rachel Tucker
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'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'
Marlon Wayans
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Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)
H. P. Lovecraft
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
Fatema Mernissi