Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

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• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Time
  • School
  • Small

• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Past
  • Islam
  • Percent

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Kind
  • Human
  • Monsters

• I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Couple
  • Baby
  • Doing

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Competition
  • Games

• You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Effort

• I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • World
  • Live
  • Digital

• Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Study
  • Strategy
  • Potential

• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Potential
  • saw

• Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Society
  • Deal
  • Resources

• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Job
  • Truth
  • King

• When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Society
  • You
  • Educated