Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I know I look super young.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.
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I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.
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I don't worry anymore because there's only one person that knows when your day is, and that's the good Lord above.
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I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.
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As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
