Queen Noor of Jordan Quotes
I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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Most film productions, when they're based at a place, they get, like, a 30-mile radius or a 30-minute radius to get out of the town. And once you go past that, your day starts to become shorter, and you have to start paying your drivers more, and everybody just gets paid more, and you have less time to shoot, and everything costs more.
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I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.
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Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.
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I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.
