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 don't like controversy.
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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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It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.
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Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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An actor can come in with a specific energy and get it on film over several days or weeks, but as the producer, I'm responsible for the overall trajectory of the project.
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Watch 'Dog with a Blog' to get a good laugh, to see me, of course, and to see an awesome, awesome talking dog who is the cleverest, most awesome dude in the world. He's really, really adorable and cute, and it's really cool seeing what kind of tricks he has up his sleeve.
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I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.
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The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses-not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; not citizens with opinions about, interests in, the handling of public affairs, like the parties of Anglo-Saxon countries.
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The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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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.
