Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
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At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
