Fatema Mernissi Quotes
Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.Fatema Mernissi
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
J. C. Chandor -
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir -
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett Marden -
You have to be yourself.
Young Thug -
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
Walter Salles
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
Kassie DePaiva -
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino -
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
Marat Safin -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
Marat Safin -
It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
Samantha Morton -
On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
Rachel Zoe -
I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
Jack Ma
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
Vanilla Ice -
Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
Elizabeth Berg -
I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
Jane Gardam -
Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.
Fatema Mernissi