Sonita Alizadeh Quotes
I want to go back to my country to help other girls. We need to support girls to see other possibilities for themselves, to have a vision for their own future.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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I don't like controversy.
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I try to stay focused.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.
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Mum's the word.
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The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.
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I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
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My parents were very protective of me and my brother, so they never talked to us about the situation in our country.
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I want to go back to my country to help other girls. We need to support girls to see other possibilities for themselves, to have a vision for their own future.
