Sonita Alizadeh Quotes
My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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Music is about the performance.
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I was rubbish at school.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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I would like to be more active outside of Israel.
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
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Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
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It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing that David Hume and Adam Smith were friends made sense.
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To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
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Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
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My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.
