Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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I think it's always wonderful to dress people in the public eye. It's the icing on the cake and such an endorsement of what we do.
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It seems to me that it's better to allow people to have more spendable income.That helps 'LO stimulate the economy and create more jobs.
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I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
