Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
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I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it to see what it's doing.
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I have never gauged myself against anyone else.
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I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.
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There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
