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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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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It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.
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For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.
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When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag. Soldiers, I bid you God-speed to your homes.
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I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in love with country music, but I also am allowed to write songs about being a man, too, which I think is the coolest place I've ever been in my life.
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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.
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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.
