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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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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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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On same-sex marriage It’s a question of human rights, gender equality and equality.
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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.
